Campaign for Accountability v. Consumer Credit Research Foundation (two Cases)

Summary

The court held that records falling within the Open Records Act's exemptions are generally exempt from mandatory disclosure but are not thereby prohibited from being disclosed. It narrowed the prior decision's reference to mandated nondisclosure, distinguishing exemptions that expressly prohibit disclosure from those that merely relieve an agency of its duty to disclose, and reversed the Court of Appeals. The court also confirmed that an interested party may sue to enforce an actual nondisclosure prohibition under the Act.