Hardaway Co. v. Rives

Bell, Presiding Justice.

The dispositive question in this appeal is whether certain documents prepared by appellee Georgia Department of Transportation (hereinafter DOT) are exempt from disclosure under the Open Records Act, OCGA Ch. 50-18, Art. 4, as “secrets of state,” OCGA § *63224-9-21 (4), or “state matters of which the policy of the state and the interest of the community require concealment,” OCGA § 24-9-27 (d). The trial court granted summary judgment to appellees on the ground that the documents are exempt under §§ 24-9-21 and 24-9-27. For the following reasons, we conclude that those…