BALLARD v. CORRECTIONS DEP'T

Docket No. 58709.

122 Mich. App. 123 (1982)

332 N.W.2d 435

BALLARD v. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided December 20, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher T. Ballard, in propria persona.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, and John Wernet, Assistant Attorney General, for defendants.

Before: MacKENZIE, P.J., and R.M. MAHER and C.W. SIMON, JJ.


MacKENZIE, P.J.

Plaintiff, a prison inmate in the custody of defendant Department of Corrections, brought this action under the Freedom of Information Act, MCL 15.231 et seq.; MSA 4.1801(1) et seq., to compel disclosure of a public record. The record in question was a film made by defendant department of plaintiff being forcibly removed from a cell at the Ionia reformatory. Defendant department contended that the film was exempt from disclosure pursuant...

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