Department of Human Resources v. Northeast Georgia Primary Care, Inc.

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• observing that Open Records Act has been applied to private entities when public agencies have delegated to them their official responsibilities and authority
• observing that Open Records Act has been applied to private entities when public agencies have delegated to them their official responsibilities and authority
• noting that a hospital authority has been described as a “governmental instrumentality” that, at the same time, “is not an agency or department of either the state or county because it is a public, non-profit corporation”
• furnishing medical care and hospitalization for the indigent is a public and essential governmental function; hospital authority is a governmental instrumentality
• reviewing relevant Open Records Act case law and noting that the Act has been applied to private entities where public agencies have delegated their official responsibilities and authority
• “A hospital authority is a government instrumentality because it is created by local governmental units for the purpose of exercising, among other things, public and essential governmental functions, to wit: furnishing medical care and hospitalization for the indigent.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).