Court Of Appeals: Open Records Act Doesn’t Apply To State Lawmakers

A group arguing that Georgia’s Open Records Act should apply to state lawmakers plans to appeal a recent ruling.

The Institute for Justice brought the suit over access to records from the 2012 session of the General Assembly, dealing with the passage of a bill about licensing music therapy.

But the Court of Appeals on July 2 agreed with a lower court’s ruling that because the state legislature is not specifically named in the Open Records Act, it should not have to comply.