Blalock v. Cartwright, Mayor

300 Ga. 884

FINAL COPY S17A0065. BLALOCK v. CARTWRIGHT. GRANT, Justice. Oscar Blalock sought access to records held by the City of Lovejoy under the Georgia Open Records Act, OCGA § 50-18-70 et seq. (“the Act”). After failing to receive those records, or any response from the City, Blalock filed a mandamus action seeking to compel compliance with the Act. The trial court dismissed Blalock’s petition, finding that mandamus was unavailable because the Act’s civil penalties provision affords Blalock a remedy “as complete and convenient as mandamus.” Tobin v. Cobb County Bd. of Ed., 278 Ga. 663,…