Capital City Press v. East Baton Rouge Parish Metropolitan Council

|2LeBLANC, Judge.

This is an appeal by plaintiffs, Capital City Press, publisher of the Baton Rouge Morning Advocate and the Sunday Advocate (“the Advocate”), and Mike Dunne, from a judgment of the trial court denying plaintiffs access to the names and resumes of applicants for the position of Assistant Director Of Aviation of the Greater Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport. For the following reasons, we affirm.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Following an announcement by the Director of Aviation of the Greater Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport (“Metro Airport”) that he intended to retire from his…