Opinion ID: 1344792
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Heading: Scope of the Exemption

Text: 3. (a) The question remains as to whether the records requested by the newspapers are: ... confidential evaluations submitted to...a governmental agency and prepared in connection with the appointment or hiring of a public officer or employee. [Div. 2 (b), above.] (b) The Act directs a narrow construction of its exclusions, exempting  only that portion of a public record to which an exclusion is directly applicable. (Div. 2 (c), above. Emphasis supplied.) As example, the applications submitted by candidates for the position of president, and the resumes and vitae requested by the newspapers, are products of the applicants themselves. They are materials upon which, in part, confidential evaluations are based. They are not evaluations, [2] hence they are not exempt.