O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 50-18-95 (2019)

Agency heads retain authority to determine records required by departments; treatment of confidential records

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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(a) Nothing in this article shall be construed to divest agency heads of the authority to determine the nature and form of records required in the administration of their several departments. Notwithstanding this Code section, agency heads shall carry out the provisions of Code Section 50-18-94.

(b) Any records designated confidential by law shall be so treated by the division in the maintenance, storage, and disposition of such confidential records. These records shall be destroyed in such a manner that they cannot be read, interpreted, or reconstructed.

History

Ga. L. 1972, p. 1267, § 6; Ga. L. 1975, p. 675, § 6; Ga. L. 2002, p. 532, § 27.

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 66 Am. Jur. 2d, Records and Recording Laws, § 3. C.J.S. - 76 C.J.S., Records, § 41 et seq.

ALR. - Validity, construction, and application of statutory provisions relating to public access to police records, 82 A.L.R.3d 19.