Consumer Credit Research Foundation v. Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia

Barnes, Presiding Judge.

*188 In Consumer Credit Research Foundation v. Bd. of Regents of the Univ. System of Ga. , 341 Ga.App. 323 , 800 S.E.2d 24 (2017), this Court construed Bowers v. Shelton , 265 Ga. 247 , 453 S.E.2d 741 (1995) to mean that state agencies do not have the discretion to publicly release records covered by any of the specific exemptions to disclosure listed in OCGA § 50-18-72 (a) of Georgia's Open Records Act (the "Act"). Based on that construction of Bowers , this Court vacated the trial court's summary judgment order and remanded for the trial court to determine whether the…