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GRIFFIS v. PINAL COUNTY

No. 2 CA-CV 2006-0052.

141 P.3d 780 (2006)

Stanley GRIFFIS, Plaintiff/Appellant, v. PINAL COUNTY, Defendant/Appellee, and Phoenix Newspapers, Inc., an Arizona corporation, Intervenor/Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Arizona, Division 2, Department A.

August 4, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fennemore Craig, By Timothy Berg, Janice Procter-Murphy, and Theresa Dwyer, Phoenix, for Plaintiff/Appellant.

Robert Carter Olson, Pinal County Attorney, By Chris M. Roll and Allen C. McVey, Florence, for Defendant/Appellee.

Steptoe & Johnson, LLP, By David J. Bodney, Peter S. Kozinets, and Chris Moeser, Phoenix, for Intervenor/Appellee.

OPINION

PELANDER, Chief Judge.

¶ 1 This case raises a central issue of whether personal electronic mail messages (e-mails) sent or received by a government employee constitute "public records" that are presumptively open to public inspection under Arizona's Public Records Law, A.R.S. §§ 39-101 through 39-161, simply because the e-mails were transmitted on and are retained in a government-owned computer system. The trial court ruled...

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