Court Opinion

ID: 9799065
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 05:44:55.605558+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:12:38.759409
License: Public Domain

J. JONES, Justice,
special concurrence.
I fully concur in the Court’s opinion but wish to make an observation regarding Part III.B.1. While I agree that investigatory records under active prosecutorial review are not inactive investigatory records, this should not be regarded by prosecutors as a perpetual safe haven for such records. In other words, “active prosecutorial review” should mean just that. If the investigatory records are left to languish in the prosecutor’s office for a long period of time without any attention or if this categorization is used as a means of merely keeping records off limits from public inspection, the categorization as inactive investigatory records may well be more appropriate. In other words, if the investigatory records are under review, they should be being reviewed instead of just gathering dust.