Compliance with open records laws will be examined each time a state agency is reviewed by the Sunset Commission. Information related to lawsuits involving a public agency or official is only shielded from disclosure if the litigation is pending or reasonably expected at the time the request was filed. All of the provisions of the Public Information Act that apply to school districts also apply to open-enrollment charter schools. Affidavits filed in support of a search warrant must be made public once the warrant has been executed. Under the law, a final written ADR agreement signed by a governmental body is now a public record.
Various records relating to the employment of executive heads of state agencies are now public.
These include consulting service contracts, records relating to reassignment of the executive, and financial payments made to a former executive director. If the Comptroller of Public Accounts produces a report which is subject to disclosure, it must be promptly published on the agency's Internet website. And public information that is filed or recorded electronically by a county clerk must be provided to the public in such a way that it can be accessed via commonly used software, such as a word processing or spreadsheet program. To help safeguard individual privacy, the Legislature created several new exceptions in the Public Information Act. Information which is excepted from disclosure may not be released in response to an open records request.