2023 House Bill 5038

Civil rights: public records; evasion of disclosure of public records under the freedom of information act by use of code words or phrases that conceal the subject of those records; prohibit.

A bill to amend 1976 PA 442, entitled “Freedom of information act,” (MCL 15.231 to 15.246) by adding section 10c.

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Proposes an amendment to the 1976 Freedom of Information Act (PA 442) by adding section 10c, which mandates that public bodies cannot prepare, possess, or retain without correction any public record that uses code words, symbols, foreign languages, or any content that could obstruct the understanding of the record's true subject for English readers or hinder its electronic discovery.