Any additional identifying information as may be collected and maintained must also be made available for inspection and copying and a reasonable fee may be charged for expenses incurred for copies fu

1984 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 84-39. Inmate records. — O.C.G.A. § 50-18-70 does not mandate that inmate records are to be open for public inspection since Department of Offender Rehabilitation (now Department of Corrections) rules and regulations, which have the force and effect of law, require that inmate records not be open for public inspection. 1981 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 81-50. Department of Offender Rehabilitation (now Department of Corrections) may properly release to Social Security Administration (SSA) inmate records necessary to enable SSA to perform SSA’s statutory duties; so long as information released is necessary for SSA to carry out SSA’s statutorily prescribed duties, the department will not be liable for invasion of an inmate’s privacy. 1981 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 81-50. Disclosure of medical payments. — Department of Medical Assistance (now Department of Community Health) must disclose maximum payments available to providers under the various reimbursement schedules. 1980 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 80-50. Criminal history confidential. — Information obtained pursuant to criminal history background check under O.C.G.A. § 16-11-129 is confidential. Information obtained pursuant to criminal history background check, required by O.C.G.A. § 16-11-129, from taking of fingerprints and checking of these fingerprints with those presently on file with the Georgia Crime Information Center is of a confidential nature and prohibited from public disclosure. 1981 Op. Att’y Gen. No. U81-47. Revolver permits. — Only names of persons issued permits to carry revolvers and date of issuance are matters of public record. 1981 Op. Att’y Gen. No. U81-47. Utility accounts of a municipality are not exempt from disclosure under the Open Records Law, O.C.G.A. § 50-18-70 et seq. 1982 Op. Att’y Gen. No. U82-36. Utility billing and payment records of public officials. — Billing and payment records of public employees and officials to a municipally owned and operated public utility system are subject to disclosure, barring the proper application of any exception. 2000 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 2000-4. Alcohol beverage invoices submitted for tax purposes. — Invoices reflecting sales of alcohol beverages by wholesalers to local retailers furnished to a local governing authority for the purpose of computing local alcohol excise tax are public records under O.C.G.A. § 50-18-70 and should be disclosed. 1985 Op. Att’y Gen. No. U85-44. Copying copyrighted records on file. — Copying of copyrighted manuals, rates, and rules which must be filed with the insurance commissioner would not constitute an unfair use and hence would not amount to an infringement but, to the contrary, would constitute a fair use within the purpose for which the filing was made with the commissioner. 1965-66 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 66-178. Notices of plant closings received from private employers by the Georgia Department of Labor pursuant to the ‘‘Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act’’ are subject to public disclosure under the Georgia Open Records Law, O.C.G.A. § 50-18-70 et seq. 1989 Op. Att’y Gen. 89-38. Official’s personal storage of tax records. — It is not proper for county tax commissioner to store tax records in the commissioner’s home. 1975 Op. Att’y Gen. No. U75-75. Members of the General Assembly have no greater right than any other citizen to inspect records deemed confidential under the Open Records Act, O.C.G.A. § 50-18-70 et seq. 1988 Op. Att’y Gen. No. U88-33. Distribution of decisions of Office of State Administrative Hearings. — Decisions of the Office of State Administrative Hearings are public records subject to distribution unless the decisions contain information subject to a confidentiality provision. 1999 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 99-13. Workers’ compensation records. — All records of the State Board of Workers’ Compensation pertaining to accidents, injuries, and settlements are confidential, unless a party can meet the statutory requirements for access or has authority pursuant to the Child Support Recovery Act, O.C.G.A. § 19-11-1 et seq. 1991 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 91-5. Records of the State Board of Workers’ Compensation Fraud and Compliance Division are subject to disclosure under the Open Records Act, O.C.G.A. § 50-18-70 et seq., except when such disclosure is exempted by the Act, prohibited by law, or prohibited by court order. 1997 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 97-20. Job training bid documents. — Documents used in the competitive bidding process under the federal Job Training Partnership Act of 1982 are subject to the Open Records Act, O.C.G.A. § 50-18-70 et seq. 1991 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 91-11. Salary and expense information of nonprofit contractors receiving ‘‘arts grants’’ funds through the Office of Planning and Budget based upon the recommendation of the Georgia Council for the Arts must be made available for public inspection. 1995 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 95-31. Contracts with federal agencies. — Agencies covered by the Georgia Open Records Act, O.C.G.A. § 50-14-1 et seq., may not by contract with a federal agency create an exception to the Act and make otherwise public documents in the hands of the agency confidential unless the contract provision is mandated by federal law or regulation. 2005 Op. Att’y Gen. No. U2005-1. Death certificates. — Federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (42 U.S.C. § 1320d) does not prevent the release of information on copies of death certificates about the cause of death of an individual, as well as conditions leading to the person’s death and information regarding surgical proceedings conducted on the deceased, if any, that are released under the Georgia Open Records Act, O.C.G.A. § 50-14-1 et seq. 2007 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 2007-4. Access to information in Registration and Title Information System. — The Department of Revenue is authorized to provide access to the information contained in the Georgia Registration and Title Information System only for the purposes mandated by the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act of 1994, 18 U.S.C. §§ 2721—2725, or to those state agencies designated in O.C.G.A. §§ 33-34-9, 40-2-130(c), and 40-3-23(d). 2008 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 2008-2. Access to deeds, liens, and plats. — Georgia Superior Court Clerks’ Cooperative Authority is required to produce images and index data in response to Open Records Act, O.C.G.A. § 50-18-70 et seq., requests for information contained on the online information system for deeds, liens, and plats, but may do so in accordance with a fee schedule adopted pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 15-6-94. 2012 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 12-5.