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Dear Mr. Theriot:

You requested that this office reconsider our prior opinion, number 08-0055, regarding discretion of the Legislative Auditor in releasing material exempted from the Public Records Act by La.R.S. 44:4(6). Based on the information you provided, we write to restate our opinion on whether the Legislative Auditor may release information exempted from the Public Records Act.

La.R.S. 44:4(6), as it currently reads, provides, in pertinent part:

This Chapter shall not apply:

To any records, writings, accounts, letters, letter books, photographs, or copies or memoranda thereof in the…