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Dear Mr. Labat:

This office is in receipt of your opinion request directed to Attorney General Richard P. Ieyoub. We are also in receipt of correspondence from your Assistant District Attorney Charles Lorio, Jr., initiating the request, in compliance with the procedures of this office.

You ask questions which require review of the Public Records Act, LSA-R.S. 44:1 et seq. We restate and respond to the questions presented in your letter.(1) When requests are received for numerous items from a particular file, which file also contains other items not requested, is there authority for turning the…