2025 Annual Report

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

100

47

50

250

100

229

200

40

80

70

150

30

60

25

22

100

20

40

61

53

24

50

20

10

0

0

0

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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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