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2023 SESSION
HB 1878 FOIA; exclusions to application of chapter, local administrative investigations, disclosure.
Introduced by: Angelia Williams Graves | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Virginia Freedom of Information Act; exclusions to application of chapter; local administrative investigations; disclosure. Clarifies that personal contact information, to include a home or business (i) address, (ii) email address, or (iii) telephone number or comparable number assigned to any other electronic communication device, when furnished in confidence to a local governing body with respect to complainants in local investigations, is exempt from disclosure under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act. The bill expands the applicability of the exemption to zoning enforcement complaints to all such complaints, not just individual enforcement complaints. The bill also provides that information in completed investigations shall be disclosed in a form that does not reveal the identity of the complainants or persons supplying information to investigators.
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- 01/10/23 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23104184D
- 01/10/23 House: Referred to Committee on General Laws
- 01/18/23 House: Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #4
- 02/07/23 House: Left in General Laws