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Question:
What is a public record?
Answer:
La. R.S. 44:1(A) (2) (a)
All books, records, writings, accounts... recordings, memoranda, and papers... or any other documentary materials regardless of physical form or characteristics... having been used, being in use, or prepared, possessed or retained for use in the conduct, transaction, or performance or any business... performed by or under the authority of the constitution or laws of this state.
Interpretation:
The Louisiana Supreme Court has instructed liberal construction of the Public Records Act, with any doubt being unresolved in favor of access.
Unless an exception to the Public Records Act applies, a custodian has the responsibility and duty to provide access to public records, and the public has a right to copy, inspect, or reproduce public records.
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