Opinion No. (1979)

Dear Honorable Johnson,

The Attorney General is in receipt of your request for an opinion wherein you ask, in effect, the following questions:

1. Under recently enacted legislation, may a county clerk who releasesinformation by telephone, discriminately charge "out of county callers"and not charge "in county callers?" 2. Can a county clerk arbitrarily render information to only "incounty callers" and not to "out of county callers?"

Your request seeks an interpretation of the effect of recent legislation allowing the release of information over the telephone by county clerks and for authorization…