BOARD OF TRUSTEES v. FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COMMISSION


181 Conn. 544 (1980)

BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WOODSTOCK ACADEMY ET AL. v. FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COMMISSION ET AL.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decision released July 22, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald W. Strickland, for the appellants (plaintiffs).

Constance L. Chambers, assistant general counsel, with whom, on the brief, was Mitchell W. Pearlman, general counsel, for the appellee (named defendant).

Martha Stone, with whom was Donna D. Morris, for the appellees (defendants Ernest M. St. Jean et al.).

COTTER, C. J., BOGDANSKI, PETERS, HEALEY and PARSKEY, JS.


COTTER, C. J.

The plaintiffs Woodstock Academy, its board of trustees, and its officers appeal from a judgment of the Court of Common Pleas, sustaining a decision of the defendant freedom of information commission that Woodstock Academy was a "public agency" within the meaning of the Freedom of Information Act (hereafter the FOIA). Since the FOIA subjects only public agencies to its disclosure requirements; General Statutes § 1-19 (a); this case presents, as...

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