Trombley v. Bellows Falls Union High School District No. 27

How courts have described this case

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• Holding that the school district in that case was “a public agency subject to the disclosure requirements of the Public Records Act.”
• stressing that the Court’s approach to the Public Records Act is similar to that for open meeting law cases
• emphasizing that the Act is to be construed liberally and in favor of granting access
• stating that “[w]e agree with plaintiff that the contract cannot override the provisions of the Public Records Act, and the confidentiality provision was not a ground for denying plaintiffs access to the records”
• explaining that statute exempts “personal documents only if they reveal intimate details of a person’s life, including any information that might subject the person to embarrassment, harassment, disgrace, or loss of employment or friends” (quotation omitted)
• explaining that statute exempts “personal documents only if they reveal intimate details of a person’s life, including any information that might subject the person to embarrassment, harassment, disgrace, or loss of employment or friends” (quotation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).