(A) The county recognizes and upholds the personal right of privacy retained by persons who may be the subject of governmental records. The county also recognizes that the Act and state case law establish a presumption that governmental records will generally be considered open and public, with certain specific exceptions. In circumstances where a record’s public or non-public status is not specifically established by the Act or another statute, by this subchapter, or by policies established or designations made under this subchapter, the public’s right to access and the record subject’s right of privacy must be compared. The county shall not release any records when to do so would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy, in accordance with the Act and procedures established by this subchapter. Under certain circumstances and procedures established by this subchapter, certain items of data may be rendered nonpublic, although other items of data in the record, or the record itself, may be classified as public.
(B) The county may, in the discretion of the head of the department of the agency responding to a request for records, notify the subject of a record that a request for access to the subject’s record has been made.
(Ord. 1995-1, passed 1-9-1995)