Legal Opinion
Hoffman v. Bay City School District
Michigan Court of Appeals
Decided June 25, 1984No. Docket 72916PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Per curiam
Plaintiff appeals as of right from the trial court’s judgment and order in which the court refused to order defendants to produce an investigatory file not in defendants’ possession. The trial court ruled that the file was not a public record and therefore not subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), MCL 15.231 et seq.; MSA 4.1801(1) et seq. We affirm.
The investigatory file at issue in this case was the result of an investigation undertaken by Richard B. Gustafson, attorney for the School District of the Bay City Public Schools, at the request of the president of the…
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