Opinion ID: 874073
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Can Canyon County, the Current Prosecuting Attorney, or His Office Be Required to Produce the Requested Records?

Text: During oral argument before the district court, counsel for Mr. Henry stated that the records at issue were those described as items 1, 2, and 5, in Mr. Henry's last request. Such documents would be: 1. Copies of all ledgers, bank statements, checks, and all other records evidencing the transfer of all funds into and out of the non-county account into which Mr. Bujak deposits the prosecuting funds he receives from Nampa from July 2009 through this letter's date..... 2. Copies of all ledgers, bank statements, checks, and all other records evidencing the transfer of all funds into and out of any account or depository of any kind into which the funds paid by Nampa are, or have ever been, deposited from July 2009 through this letter's date..... .... 5. All documents necessary or relevant to determine the actual figures, from July 2009 through this letter's date, that are necessary to calculate the mathematical equation described in Mr. Laugheed letter of March 15, 2010 as follows: (Nampa payments) - (CCPA salary bumps + Nampa annex overhead expenses) = (Amount to general fund). During oral argument on appeal, counsel for Respondents stated that on May 4, 2011, the county received through Mr. Bujak's bankruptcy proceedings the financial records requested, and that it provided them to Mr. Henry the following day. Mr. Henry's counsel stated that there was additional discovery his client would like to conduct regarding the records and the existence of any emails regarding this transaction between the county and Mr. Bujak. Idaho Code section 9-343(1) provides that the sole remedy for a person aggrieved by the denial of a request to examine or copy public records is to institute an action in the district court to compel the public agency or independent public body corporate and politic to make the information available for public inspection in accordance with the provisions of sections 9-337 through 9-348, Idaho Code. Mr. Henry is not entitled to an order compelling inspection of public records not requested, nor is he entitled in this proceeding to conduct further discovery regarding information that may be contained in the records that were produced. Therefore, at this point he has received the relief to which he is entitled with respect to examining the public records requested.