Sec. 1-202. (Formerly Sec. 1-20e). Application of freedom of information provisions to agency committee composed entirely of individuals who are not members of the agency.
Sec. 1-202. (Formerly Sec. 1-20e). Application of freedom of information provisions to agency committee composed entirely of individuals who are not members
of the agency. Any public agency may petition the Freedom of Information Commission
before establishing a committee of the public agency which is to be composed entirely
of individuals who are not members of the agency, to determine whether such committee
may be exempted from the application of any provision of the Freedom of Information
Act. If the commission, in its judgment, finds by reliable, probative and substantial
evidence that the public interest in exempting the committee from the application of
any such provision clearly outweighs the public interest in applying the provision to the
committee, the commission shall issue an order, on appropriate terms, exempting the
committee from the application of the provision.
(P.A. 93-195, S. 2; P.A. 97-47, S. 7.)
History: P.A. 97-47 substituted "the Freedom of Information Act" for list of sections; Sec. 1-20e transferred to Sec. 1-202 in 1999.
Annotation to former section 1-20e:
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Sec. 1-15 et seq. cited. 37 CA 589. Freedom of Information Act, Sec. 1-15 et seq.
cited. 42 CA 402. Freedom of Information Act cited. 43 CA 133.