Annual Report 2025
The Clerk to the Commission | Page 10
RECORDS MANAGEMENT
The Clerk is hereby prohibited from certifying any minutes of the county commission or excerpts therefrom until and unless the minutes from which such excerpt is taken have been ratified and approved by the county commission; provided, however, the clerk may furnish a copy or excerpt of a preliminary draft of the proposed minutes of the county commission without a certification; provided, however, where such excerpts are prepared and furnished by the clerk, there shall be noted thereon that the same are not official minutes but are tentative and as such are not binding on the county or any officer thereof. (Code 1983, § 22-3-5) Sec. 102-116. - Certification of minutes.
Open Record Requests
Resolutions & Ordinances
Documents Certified
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(2) “Public record” means all documents, papers, letters, maps, books, tapes, photographs, computer based or generated information, data, data fields, or similar material prepared and maintained or received by an agency or by a private person or entity in the performance of a service or function for or on behalf of an agency or when such documents have been transferred to a private person or entity by an agency for storage or future governmental use. O.C.G.A. 50-18-70. Legislative intent; definitions.
(b) All public records of an agency as defined in subsection (a) of this Code section, except those which by order of a court of this state or by law are prohibited or specifically exempted from being open to inspection by the general public, shall be open for a personal inspection by any citizen of this state at a reasonable time and place; and those in charge of such records shall not refuse this privilege to any citizen.
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