Opinion No. (1997)

Dear Director DeWade Langley,

¶ 0 We have received your request for an official Opinion of the Attorney General in which you asked, in effect, the following question:

Are documents comprising a background investigation performedby the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation ("the OSBI") forthe Judicial Nominating Commission public records which must bedisclosed to the subject of the investigation upon request?

AUTHORITY OF THE JUDICIAL NOMINATING COMMISSION

¶ 1 The Oklahoma Constitution provides that in the event of any vacancy in a judicial office, it is incumbent upon the Judicial Nominating…