Sunday, June 05, 2005

~ legislative changes to north dakota's public records law ~

The North Dakota Attorney General offers a brief summary of the 2005 legislative changes to the Open Records law. One of the most significant, restricting one agency from releasing documents generated by another, seems to parallel the same practice in California.
When the law requires a public entity to disclose confidential records to another public entity, the records remain confidential and cannot be released by the receiving entity. Read the annotated Open Records law [pdf]