Bill Text: IN SB0363 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Public records.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-12 - First reading: referred to Committee on Local Government [SB0363 Detail]
Download: Indiana-2010-SB0363-Introduced.html
Citations Affected: IC 5-14-3-2.
Synopsis: Public records. Provides that the provisions in the public
records law regarding investigatory records of a crime apply to
investigatory records of the commission of an infraction or the
violation of a municipal or county ordinance or local law. Provides that
for purposes of the public records act, a law enforcement agency
includes attorneys representing a political subdivision.
Effective: July 1, 2010.
January 12, 2010, read first time and referred to Committee on Local Government.
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(b) "Copy" includes transcribing by handwriting, photocopying, xerography, duplicating machine, duplicating electronically stored data onto a disk, tape, drum, or any other medium of electronic data storage, and reproducing by any other means.
(c) "Direct cost" means one hundred five percent (105%) of the sum of the cost of:
(1) the initial development of a program, if any;
(2) the labor required to retrieve electronically stored data; and
(3) any medium used for electronic output;
for providing a duplicate of electronically stored data onto a disk, tape, drum, or other medium of electronic data retrieval under section 8(g) of this chapter, or for reprogramming a computer system under section 6(c) of this chapter.
(d) "Electronic map" means copyrighted data provided by a public agency from an electronic geographic information system.
(e) "Enhanced access" means the inspection of a public record by a person other than a governmental entity and that:
(1) is by means of an electronic device other than an electronic device provided by a public agency in the office of the public agency; or
(2) requires the compilation or creation of a list or report that does not result in the permanent electronic storage of the information.
(f) "Facsimile machine" means a machine that electronically transmits exact images through connection with a telephone network.
(g) "Inspect" includes the right to do the following:
(1) Manually transcribe and make notes, abstracts, or memoranda.
(2) In the case of tape recordings or other aural public records, to listen and manually transcribe or duplicate, or make notes, abstracts, or other memoranda from them.
(3) In the case of public records available:
(A) by enhanced access under section 3.5 of this chapter; or
(B) to a governmental entity under section 3(c)(2) of this chapter;
to examine and copy the public records by use of an electronic device.
(4) In the case of electronically stored data, to manually transcribe and make notes, abstracts, or memoranda or to duplicate the data onto a disk, tape, drum, or any other medium of electronic storage.
(h) "Investigatory record" means information compiled in the course of the investigation of a crime, an infraction, or a violation of a municipal or county ordinance or a local law.
(i) "Offender" means a person confined in a penal institution as the result of the conviction for a crime.
(j) "Patient" has the meaning set out in IC 16-18-2-272(d).
(k) "Person" means an individual, a corporation, a limited liability company, a partnership, an unincorporated association, or a governmental entity.
(l) "Provider" has the meaning set out in IC 16-18-2-295(b) and includes employees of the state department of health or local boards of health who create patient records at the request of another provider or who are social workers and create records concerning the family background of children who may need assistance.
(m) "Public agency", except as provided in section 2.1 of this chapter, means the following:
(1) Any board, commission, department, division, bureau, committee, agency, office, instrumentality, or authority, by whatever name designated, exercising any part of the executive, administrative, judicial, or legislative power of the state.
(2) Any:
(A) county, township, school corporation, city, or town, or any board, commission, department, division, bureau, committee, office, instrumentality, or authority of any county, township, school corporation, city, or town;
(B) political subdivision (as defined by IC 36-1-2-13); or
(C) other entity, or any office thereof, by whatever name designated, exercising in a limited geographical area the executive, administrative, judicial, or legislative power of the state or a delegated local governmental power.
(3) Any entity or office that is subject to:
(A) budget review by either the department of local government finance or the governing body of a county, city, town, township, or school corporation; or
(B) an audit by the state board of accounts that is required by statute, rule, or regulation.
(4) Any building corporation of a political subdivision that issues bonds for the purpose of constructing public facilities.
(5) Any advisory commission, committee, or body created by statute, ordinance, or executive order to advise the governing body of a public agency, except medical staffs or the committees of any such staff.
(6) Any law enforcement agency, which means an agency or a department of any level of government that engages in the investigation, apprehension, arrest, or prosecution of alleged criminal offenders or persons alleged to have committed an infraction or violated a municipal or county ordinance or a local law, such as the state police department, the police or sheriff's department of a political subdivision, prosecuting attorneys, attorneys representing a political subdivision, members of the excise police division of the alcohol and tobacco commission, conservation officers of the department of natural resources, gaming agents of the Indiana gaming commission, gaming control officers of the Indiana gaming commission, and the security division of the state lottery commission.
(7) Any license branch staffed by employees of the bureau of motor vehicles commission under IC 9-16.
(8) The state lottery commission established by IC 4-30-3-1,
including any department, division, or office of the commission.
(9) The Indiana gaming commission established under IC 4-33,
including any department, division, or office of the commission.
(10) The Indiana horse racing commission established by IC 4-31,
including any department, division, or office of the commission.
(n) "Public record" means any writing, paper, report, study, map,
photograph, book, card, tape recording, or other material that is
created, received, retained, maintained, or filed by or with a public
agency and which is generated on paper, paper substitutes,
photographic media, chemically based media, magnetic or machine
readable media, electronically stored data, or any other material,
regardless of form or characteristics.
(o) "Standard-sized documents" includes all documents that can be
mechanically reproduced (without mechanical reduction) on paper
sized eight and one-half (8 1/2) inches by eleven (11) inches or eight
and one-half (8 1/2) inches by fourteen (14) inches.
(p) "Trade secret" has the meaning set forth in IC 24-2-3-2.
(q) "Work product of an attorney" means information compiled by
an attorney in reasonable anticipation of litigation. The term includes
the attorney's:
(1) notes and statements taken during interviews of prospective
witnesses; and
(2) legal research or records, correspondence, reports, or
memoranda to the extent that each contains the attorney's
opinions, theories, or conclusions.
This definition does not restrict the application of any exception under
section 4 of this chapter.