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Opinion Letter No. 92-12
August 13, 1992
Lobbyists’ Electronically Stored Addresses
Electronically stored addresses of lobbyists who have
filed registration statements with the State Ethics
Commission must be made available for public inspection and copying.
The OIP reached this
conclusion despite the fact that the Commission is directed to publish
annually a list of registered
lobbyists, and State law provides that this publication shall not
include the addresses of those
lobbyists. Because under a different Commission statute the registration
statements of lobbyists are
specifically designated public records, and because each lobbyist’s
registration statement includes the
lobbyist’s address, the OIP found that no UIPA exception would
protect the electronically stored
addresses of registered lobbyists from disclosure.
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