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O.C.G.A. § 28-4-3.1 (2019)

Confidentiality of communications between Office of Legislative Counsel and certain persons

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Communications between the Office of Legislative Counsel and the following persons shall be privileged and confidential: members of the General Assembly, the Lieutenant Governor, and persons acting on behalf of such public officers; and such communications, and records and work product relating to such communications, shall not be subject to inspection or disclosure under Article 4 of Chapter 18 of Title 50 or any other law or under judicial process; provided, however, that this privilege shall not apply where it is waived by the affected public officer or officers. The privilege established under this Code section is in addition to any other constitutional, statutory, or common law privilege.

History

(Code 1981, § 50-18-75, enacted by Ga. L. 1988, p. 243, § 5; Ga. L. 2012, p. 218, § 2/HB 397; Code 1981, § 28-4-3.1, as redesignated by Ga. L. 2017, p. 774, § 50/HB 323.)

Annotations

The 2017 amendment, effective May 9, 2017, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, redesignated former Code Section 50-18-75 as present Code Section 28-4-3.1 and substituted "Article 4 of Chapter 18 of Title 50" for "this article" in the middle of the first sentence.

Editor's notes. - Ga. L. 2017, p. 774, § 50(5)/HB 323, redesignated former Code Section 50-18-75 as present Code Section 28-4-3.1.

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d. - 66 Am. Jur. 2d, Records and Recording Laws, § 32 et seq.

C.J.S. - 76 C.J.S., Records, § 135.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1 case, 2019–2019 · leading case: Inst. for Just. v. Reilly, 830 S.E.2d 793 (Ga. Ct. App. 2019).
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Inst. for Just. v. Reilly, 830 S.E.2d 793 (Ga. Ct. App. 2019). · cites it 14× “Nor is the enactment of OCGA § 28-4-3.1, as the Institute argues, evidence of the General Assembly’s intent to make the Open Records Act applicable to the General Assembly.”
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