O.C.G.A. § 31-5-5 (2019)
Classification of confidential and privileged materials
The department and county boards of health are authorized by regulation to classify as confidential and privileged documents, reports and other information and data obtained by them from persons, firms, corporations, municipalities, counties, and other public authorities and political subdivisions, where such matters relate to secret processes, formulas, and methods or where such matters were obtained or furnished on a confidential basis. All matters so classified shall not be subject to public inspection or discovery and shall not be subject to production or disclosure in any court of law or elsewhere until and unless the judge of the court of competent jurisdiction, after in camera inspection, determines that the public interest requires such production and disclosure or that such production and disclosure may be necessary in the interests of justice.
History
Code 1933, § 88-306, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1; Ga. L. 2011, p. 99, § 42/HB 24.
Annotations
Editor’s notes. - Ga. L. 2011, p. 99, § 101/HB 24, not codified by the General
Assembly, provides that this Act shall apply to any motion made or hearing or trial commenced on or after January 1, 2013.
Law reviews. - For article, ‘‘Evidence,’’ see 27 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 1 (2011).
For article on the 2011 amendment of this Code section, see 28 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 1 (2011). JUDICIAL DECISIONS Cited in Theragenics Corp. v. Department of Natural Resources, 244 Ga. App. 829, 536 S.E.2d 613 (2000). RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 39 Am. Jur. 2d, Health, § 95 et seq.
C.J.S. - 39A C.J.S., Health and Environment, § 20 et seq.