Jersawitz v. Hicks

Hunstein, Justice.

Pro se appellant, Jack Jersawitz, instituted a mandamus action seeking to compel appellee, Juanita Hicks, Clerk of the Fulton Supe rior Court, to provide a means by which the computerized database of real estate deed records, which are currently available to the public on a computer tape, could be directly accessed via a telephone modem on a personal computer. In granting appellee’s motion for summary judgment the trial court determined that although the database at issue was a public record within the meaning of the Open Records Act, OCGA § 50-18-70 et seq. (the Act),…