Water Works v. Consolidated Pub., Inc.

Consolidated Publishing, Inc. ("Consolidated"), the publisher of The Daily Home, a newspaper distributed in Talladega County, sued the Water Works and Sewer Board of the City of Talladega ("the Water Board"), and its custodian of records, George Montgomery, in the Talladega Circuit Court to enjoin the Water Board from denying Consolidated access to certain records of the Water Board. Consolidated argued that it was entitled to the records under Alabama's "Open Records Act," § 36-12-40, Ala. Code 1975. The Water Board argued that because it is a public corporation it is not required to abide…