March 15, 2010

Ms. Candice M. De La Garza

Assistant City Attorney

City of Houston

P.O. Box 368

Houston, Texas 77001-0368

OR2010-03640

Re: Request for the HPD Incident Report pertaining to domestic violence involving the requestor in 1996 and correspondence pertaining to the same

Dear Ms. De La Garza:

The Office of the Attorney General has received your request for a ruling and assigned your request ID# 378883.

After reviewing your arguments and the submitted incident report we have determined your request does not present a novel or complex issue. Thus, we are addressing your claims in a memorandum opinion. You claim the submitted information may be withheld from the requestor pursuant to section 552.108(a)(2) of the Government Code. We have considered your arguments and the submitted information and have determined that in accordance with section 552.108(a)(2) you may withhold the submitted information. However, you must release the basic information pursuant to section 552.108(c) of the Government Code. To the extent the rest of the requested information exists, we assume you have released it. See Gov't Code §§ 552.301, .302.

For more information on the cited exception, as well as information on the rights and obligations of governmental bodies and requestors, please refer to open government information contained on the Office of the Attorney General website at www.oag.state.tx.us. You may also contact our Open Government Hotline at 1-877-OPENTEX.

Enc: Submitted documents

c: Requestor

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