From: jwarren@well.com (Jim Warren)
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 95 09:17:11 PST
To: holovacs@styx.ios.com
Subject: Re: Oklahoma University: Is this legal?...
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At 07:09 PM 12/17/95, sethf@MIT.EDU wrote:
>        c) someone decided that everything stored on the University's
>computer system was therefore a "public record" (since the computer is
>"owned" by the public), and thus had to be accessible by law.

Uh, every PRA (public records act) in the nation hase extensive exceptions
-- for school records, collective bargaining, various investigative
records, etc.

NO state PRA or federal FOIA declares blanket access to all public-agency
records -- often justifiably; sometimes for agency arse-covering.

--jim
Jim Warren, GovAccess list-owner/editor (jwarren@well.com)
Advocate & columnist, MicroTimes, Government Technology, BoardWatch, etc.