(8) Related to the provision of staff services to individual
members of the General Assembly by the Legislative and
Congressional Reapportionment Office, the Senate Research Office,
or the House Research Office, provided that this exception shall
not have any application with respect to records related to the
provision of staff services to any committee or subcommittee or to
any records which are or have been previously publicly disclosed
by or pursuant to the direction of an individual member of the
General Assembly;
(9) Records that are of historical research value which are given
or sold to public archival institutions, public libraries, or
libraries of a unit of the Board of Regents of the University
System of Georgia when the owner or donor of such records wishes
to place restrictions on access to the records. No restriction on
access, however, may extend more than 75 years from the date of
donation or sale. This exemption shall not apply to any records
prepared in the course of the operation of state or local
governments of the State of Georgia;
(10) Records that contain information from the Department of
Natural Resources inventory and register relating to the location
and character of a historic property or of historic properties as
those terms are defined in Code Sections 12-3-50.1 and 12-3-50.2
if the Department of Natural Resources through its Division of
Historic Preservation determines that disclosure will create a
substantial risk of harm, theft, or destruction to the property or
properties or the area or place where the property or properties
are located;
(11) Records that contain site specific information regarding the
occurrence of rare species of plants or animals or the location of
sensitive natural habitats on public or private property if the
Department of Natural Resources determines that disclosure will
create a substantial risk of harm, theft, or destruction to the
species or habitats or the area or place where the species or
habitats are located; provided, however, that the owner or owners
of private property upon which rare species of plants or animals
occur or upon which sensitive natural habitats are located shall
be entitled to such information pursuant to this article;
(11.1) An individual's social security number and insurance or
medical information in personnel records, which may be redacted
from such records;
(11.2) Records that would reveal the names, home addresses,
telephone numbers, security codes, or any other data or
information developed, collected, or received by counties or
municipalities in connection with the installation, servicing,
maintaining, operating, selling, or leasing of burglar alarm
systems, fire alarm systems, or other electronic security systems;
provided, however, that initial police reports and initial
incident reports shall remain subject to disclosure pursuant to
paragraph (4) of this subsection;
(11.3)(A) An individual's social security number, mother's birth
name, credit card information, debit card information, bank
account information, financial data or information, and
insurance or medical information in all records, and if
technically feasible at reasonable cost, day and month of birth,
which shall be redacted prior to disclosure of any record
requested pursuant to this article; provided, however, that such
information shall not be redacted from such records if the
person or entity requesting such records requests such
information in a writing signed under oath by such person or a
person legally authorized to represent such entity which states
that such person or entity is gathering information as a
representative of a news media organization for use in
connection with news gathering and reporting; and provided,
further, that such access shall be limited to social security
numbers and day and month of birth; and provided, further, that
this news media organization exception for access to social
security numbers and day and month of birth and the other
protected information set forth in this subparagraph shall not
apply to teachers and employees of a public school.
(B) This paragraph shall have no application to:
(i) The disclosure of information contained in the records or
papers of any court or derived therefrom including without
limitation records maintained pursuant to Article 9 of Title
11;
(ii) The disclosure of information to a court, prosecutor, or
publicly employed law enforcement officer, or authorized agent
thereof, seeking records in an official capacity;
(iii) The disclosure of information to a public employee of
this state, its political subdivisions, or the United States
who is obtaining such information for administrative
purposes, in which case, subject to applicable laws of the
United States, further access to such information shall
continue to be subject to the provisions of this paragraph;
(iv) The disclosure of information as authorized by the order
of a court of competent jurisdiction upon good cause shown to
have access to any or all of such information upon such
conditions as may be set forth in such order;
(v) The disclosure of information to the individual in respect
of whom such information is maintained, with the authorization
thereof, or to an authorized agent thereof; provided, however,
that the agency maintaining such information shall require
proper identification of such individual or such individual's
agent, or proof of authorization, as determined by such
agency;
(vi) The disclosure of the day and month of birth and mother's
birth name of a deceased individual;
(vii) The disclosure by an agency of credit or payment
information in connection with a request by a consumer
reporting agency as that term is defined under the federal
Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. 1681, et seq.);
(viii) The disclosure by an agency of information in its
records in connection with the agency's discharging or
fulfilling of its duties and responsibilities, including, but
not limited to, the collection of debts owed to the agency or
individuals or entities whom the agency assists in the
collection of debts owed to the individual or entity; or
(ix) The disclosure of information necessary to comply with
legal or regulatory requirements or for legitimate law
enforcement purposes.
(C) Records and information disseminated pursuant to this
paragraph may be used only by the authorized recipient and only
for the authorized purpose. Any person who obtains records or
information pursuant to the provisions of this paragraph and
knowingly and willfully discloses, distributes, or sells such
records or information to an unauthorized recipient or for an
unauthorized purpose shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of a high
and aggravated nature and upon conviction thereof shall be
punished as provided in Code Section 17-10-4. Any person
injured thereby shall have a cause of action for invasion of
privacy. Any prosecution pursuant to this paragraph shall be in
accordance with the procedure in subsection (b) of Code Section
50-18-74.
(D) In the event that the custodian of public records protected
by this paragraph has good faith reason to believe that a
pending request for such records has been made fraudulently,
under false pretenses, or by means of false swearing, such
custodian shall apply to the superior court of the county in
which such records are maintained for a protective order
limiting or prohibiting access to such records.
(E) This paragraph shall supplement and shall not supplant,
overrule, replace, or otherwise modify or supersede any
provision of statute, regulation, or law of the federal
government or of this state as now or hereafter amended or
enacted requiring, restricting, or prohibiting access to the
information identified in subparagraph (A) of this paragraph and
shall constitute only a regulation of the methods of such access
where not otherwise provided for, restricted, or prohibited;