| Reference
Materials |
File
Formats |
| Access
to Public Records PowerPoint Presentation (2022) |
PowerPoint
| pdf
| html |
| Access
to Public Meetings Draft PowerPoint Presentation (2024)
|
PowerPoint
| pdf
| html |
| Access
to Public Records (2025) |
Word
| pdf
| html |
| Access
to Public Meetings (2025) |
Word
| pdf
| html |
| Best
Practices for Making Requests for Public Records (2025) |
Word
| pdf
| html |
| Electronic
Meetings Guide (2025) |
Word
| pdf | html |
| Email:
Use, Access & Retention (2023) |
Word
| pdf
| html |
| Email
and Meetings under the VA Freedom of Information Act (2013) |
Word
| pdf
| html |
| Law
Enforcement Records and the Freedom of Information Act
DRAFT (2025) |
Word
| pdf
| html
|
| Criminal
& Other Law Enforcement Records PowerPoint Presentation
DRAFT (2025) |
PowerPoint
| pdf
| html |
| Handling
FOIA Requests for Records of 911 Calls (2025) |
Word
| pdf | html
|
| FOIA
& Social Media (2019) |
Word
| pdf
| html
|
| FOIA
Charges Guide (2024) |
Word
| pdf
| html
|
| FOIA
Guide for Boards of Public Institutions of Higher Education
(2024) |
Word
| pdf
| html
|
| FOIA
Guide for Local Government Officials (2024) |
Word
| pdf
| html
|
| Local
Officials and FOIA PowerPoint Presentation (2024) |
PowerPoint
| pdf
| html |
| Access
to Records - Quick Reference (2025) |
Word
| pdf
| html
|
| A
Guide to the Freedom of Information Act for Members of
Boards, Councils, Commissions, and other Deliberative
Public Bodies (2024) |
Word
| pdf
| html
|
| Guide
to Geographic Information Systems Records (2019) |
Word
| pdf |
html |
| List
of other access laws (incomplete) |
Word
| pdf | html
|
| FOIA
Brief: Hawkins v. Town of South Hill: the Supreme
Court of Virginia rules on the Personnel Information Exemption
(2022) |
Word
| pdf
| html |
| Virginia
Legislative Issue Brief No. 37, Beck v. Shelton: The
Supreme Court Examines the Parameters of a "Meeting"
under FOIA (2004) |
External
Link |
| Virginia
Legislative Issue Brief No. 44, Closed Meeting Exemption
for Contract Negotiations under the Virginia Freedom of
Information Act, White Dog Publishing v. Culpeper County
Board of Supervisors (2006) |
External
Link |
| SCHEV
FOIA video for governing boards |
External
Link |
