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Resident presses town for native-format records; attorney cites Office of Open Records Council guidance
Summary
Resident Kimberly Parks asked the board to require original-format delivery of requested emails and video; the town attorney replied that state guidance allows custodians to provide secure, non-manipulable formats (PDF) and said staff must be shown evidence if records were altered.
During citizen comment at the Nov. 13 meeting resident Kimberly Parks asked the board to require production of open records in their native formats (for example, MSG email files), saying staff had provided only PDFs and she could not match attachments or filenames and that some video requests were rejected.
Parks said, "I have a mess of open records because he's refusing to give them to me in the MSG file," and asked the board to ensure records…
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