Lawrence v. Jenkins

In this appeal, we decide whether an individual requesting documents pursuant to the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is denied rights and privileges conferred by that act when a responding public official chooses to exercise an exemption, redacts the exempt information from the documents, but fails to timely reference the applicable Code section making portions of the requested documents exempt. We conclude that, in this situation, the requesting individual was not denied rights and privileges under FOIA and that the circuit court therefore erred by issuing a writ of mandamus and…