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What personal information contained in public records is subject to the Open Records Act?

There are many exceptions provided in Georgia law that protect the privacy of personal information.  Some of these prevent disclosure of such information contained in records subject to the Open Records Act.  In addition, the Act includes exceptions preventing disclosure of, among other items:

• Social Security numbers
• medical information
• insurance information
• bank account information
• credit card and debit card account information
• financial information
• mother's birth name
• month and day of birth
• the home addresses and telephone numbers of public employees, judges and law enforcement officers

Records containing such information still must be produced, but the protected information is redacted from the produced records.

O.C.G.A. § 50-18-72(a)(11.1), (11.3), (13) & (13.1).