Public record containing exempt and nonexempt materials, nonexempt to be made available
If a government record has some parts that are secret and some parts that are not, the government must separate them and let people see the non-secret parts. When describing what was removed, the government gives a general explanation — but only if doing so does not give away the secret information.
610.024. containing and s, nonexempt to be made available — deleted exempt materials to be explained, . — 1. If a public record contains material which is not exempt from as well as material which is exempt from disclosure, the shall separate the exempt and nonexempt material and make the nonexempt material available for examination and copying.
2. When designing a public record, a public governmental body shall, to the extent , facilitate a separation of exempt from nonexempt . If the separation is readily apparent to a person requesting to inspect or receive copies of the form, the public governmental body shall generally describe the material exempted unless that description would reveal the contents of the exempt information and thus defeat the purpose of the .
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Source & history notes
(L. 1993 H.B. 170)
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