When government employees of two different agencies share documents, they cannot shield the documents from public disclosure unless the narrow and strict requirements for “common interest” work product privilege are met
The brief argued that the personnel records exemption to the PRA applies to birthdates because personnel records are the source of birthdate information—and birthdates are private information that can be used to intrude on other sensitive records.
Department of Children Youth and Families must make active efforts to prevent the breakup of Indigenous families at any hearings or proceedings that seek the removal of an Indigenous child from their family
