Arneson v. Wolf

OPINION BY

Judge PATRICIA A. McCullough.

In this case, the Court discerns legislative intent to determine whether the Executive Director of the Office of Open Records (OOR), a unique and mi generis independent body, was meant to be independent from the executive branch and insulated from the Governor’s constitutional power to remove appointees at-will.

The legal concept of “independent administrative agency” has generated a wealth of commentary, but the defining characteristic of an independent agency is precisely that — the agency is independent in the sense that it is free from the control and…