Tennessean, a Division of Gannett Satellite Information Network, Inc. v. Electric Power Board of Nashville

OPINION

ANDERSON, Chief Justice.

We granted this appeal to address two questions of first impression under the Tennessee Public Records Act: first, whether a government agency should be required to disclose its customer names, addresses, and telephone numbers as a public record, even though it did not maintain the information in its computer in the exact format in which it had been requested; and second, whether the same government agency may require payment of costs incurred in disclosing the information and the cost of notifying its customers that the information had been requested. 1

The…