Bill > HB304

This bill clarifies that when a government entity, referred to as a "custodian," responds to a request for public information under the Public Information Act, performing certain data manipulation tasks like data compilation, extraction, querying, or statistical aggregation does not create a new public record. This is important because existing law generally requires custodians to provide public records, and this bill ensures that routine data processing to fulfill a request, even if it involves organizing or summarizing data, is not considered the creation of a new record that would then be subject to separate disclosure requirements. The bill also specifies that this clarification applies if the requested data manipulation is something the government's records database is capable of performing.