Is an agency required to answer questions regarding contents of public records?
No. The Public Records Law does not require an employee to answer questions regarding details of the contents of records or to excerpt or interpret them for the public. However, an agency must respond to all requests for any information about copying costs. Is an agency required to produce records in a particular form? An agency is not ordinarily required to produce records in a particular form. For example, if the health department keeps a chronological list of dogbites involving rabies, a requester cannot require the department to reorganize the information by geographic area. However, an agency is required to provide a copy of a public record in any medium maintained by the agency. Is an agency required to comply with a request for records stored in a computer? Yes. Information stored in a computer is as much a public record as written pages in a book or file folders, and are governed by the same rules as other public records. An agency that maintains a public record in an electroni
