Court Opinion

ID: 9788700
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 01:16:02.709977+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:37:16.072650
License: Public Domain

BRYNER, Justice,
concurring.
I join in the court's opinion but would emphasize that, in my view, the strong and specific terms of the Alaska Public Records Act raise serious doubts as to whether the kind of routine governmental records at issue here-responses to a city manager's request to staff members for background information concerning a proposed annexation petition-would qualify as either "predecisional" or "deliberative" communications for purposes of establishing a prima facie claim under Alaska's deliberative process privilege.34

. Cf. City of Garland v. The Dallas Morning News, 22 S.W.3d 351, 364 (Tex.2000).