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League weighs records-office bill and legislative-audit amendments; concerns raised about public-access perception and attorney-client privilege
Summary
The League discussed SB277 (creating a government records office and replacing the state records committee) and SB154/SJR4 (legislative audit amendments implicating attorney-client privilege) and signaled support for structural records-office changes while opposing SB154/SJR4 as drafted.
League staff briefed members on a package of bills affecting records access, government transparency, and data privacy during the Feb. 18 LPC meeting.
SB277 would replace the multi-member state records committee with a single, law-trained director appointed by the governor with Senate advice and consent, create a government records office, and remove the committee’s balancing test that allowed the panel to weigh access against privacy interests. League staff said the substitution narrows decision-making and places a law-trained individual in charge of records appeals; staff’s preliminary recommendation was to support SB277 but to monitor…
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