Daily Press, LLC v. Office of the Exec. Sec'y of the Supreme Court of Va.

OPINION BY JUSTICE STEPHEN R. McCULLOUGH

The question before us on appeal is whether the Virginia Freedom of Information Act, Code § 2.2-3700 et seq. ("VFOIA") entitles The Daily Press to obtain a copy of a database from the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia ("Executive Secretary") or whether, instead, The Daily Press must ask each jurisdiction's clerk of court for certain court records. The answer turns on whether the Executive Secretary is the legal custodian of court records or whether the clerks of court fulfill that role. We conclude that the clerks of…