Chantal Eldridge v. Putnam County

OPINION

BEN H. CANTRELL, P.J., M.S.,

delivered the opinion of the court,

in which PATRICIA J. COTTRELL, J. and WALTER C. KURTZ, Sp. J., joined.

I

This is a case about the Open Records Act as applied to the telephone records of a Drug Task Force. After the Chancery Court of Putnam County ordered the County to produce the records, the County appealed, arguing that the records fit an exception to the Act or that the County should be able at the plaintiffs expense to redact the records to delete confidential information. We modify the chancellor’s order to allow the County to redact the records at…