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Committee advances bill to clarify which public agency must respond to open-records requests
Summary
The House Governmental Affairs full committee advanced Senate Bill 12 to specify that open-records requests should be directed to the government entity that created or spent public funds, not to private contractors; committee action was taken by voice vote and the measure will be carried to the floor.
The House Governmental Affairs full committee advanced Senate Bill 12, a measure to clarify that open-records requests must be made to the government entity that created or expended public funds rather than to private contractors, committee members heard.
The bill (LC473644S) was presented to the committee as a clarification prompted by a recent state supreme court decision involving records connected to Georgia Tech. The sponsor said the intent is to protect businesses from burdensome requests sent to private contractors and to make clear that the public custodian is the government entity that holds records because it spent tax dollars.
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