Caledonian-Record Publishing Co. v. Walton

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that this nation’s founding fathers “thought secrecy in government one of the instruments of Old World tyranny and committed itself to the principle that a democracy cannot function unless the people are permitted to know what their government is up to” (citation omitted)
• commencing interpretation of PRA “with the statement of legislative intent in the Act”
• a proviso may be added to an existing statute to exclude a possible misunderstanding of its extent
• “[T]he public interest clearly favors the right of access to public documents and public records.”
• exceptions should be construed strictly against custodians of records and any doubts resolved in favor of disclosure
• also recognizing that “[i]nformation concerning the operations of the police department in making arrests and the charges upon which arrests are made is vital to the democratic system” (quotation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).