HAGEN v. DEP'T. OF ED.

Docket Nos. 79524, 79525, (Calendar No. 1).

431 Mich. 118 (1988)

427 N.W.2d 879

HAGEN v. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION (BEDFORD PUBLIC SCHOOLS v. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION)

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided August 23, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thrun, Maatsch & Nordberg, P.C. (by Thomas J. Nordberg and Kenneth Harned), for the plaintiffs.

Foster, Swift, Collins & Coey, P.C. (by Lynwood E. Beekman and Kathryn A. VanDagens), for the intervening plaintiff.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, and Gerald F. Young and Frank J. Monticello, Assistant Attorneys General, for the defendants.


CAVANAGH, J.

The sole issue presented here is the extent to which the Michigan Department of Education may suppress decisions of the State Tenure Commission under exemption (1)(d) of § 13 of the Michigan Freedom of Information Act. MCL 15.243(1)(d); MSA 4.1801(13)(1)(d). We hold that tenure commission decisions may only be withheld during the administrative stage of a teacher's appeal. After this point in the review process, the commission decisions may be released...

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