March 5, 2012

Ms. Shannon C. Francis

Assistant County Attorney

Williamson County

405 Martin Luther King Street, Box 7

Georgetown, Texas 78626

OR2012-03247

Dear Ms. Francis:

You ask whether certain information is subject to required public disclosure under the Public Information Act (the "Act"), chapter 552 of the Government Code. Your request was assigned ID# 446991.

The Williamson County Attorney's Office (the "county attorney") received a request for eight categories of information pertaining to a specified offense that involved a named individual. You state some responsive information has been released to the requestor. You claim that the submitted information is excepted from disclosure under sections 552.101, 552.130, and 552.147 of the Government Code. We have considered the exceptions you claim and reviewed the submitted information.

You assert the submitted video recording contains driver's license numbers that are excepted from disclosure under section 552.130 of the Government Code. Section 552.130 excepts from disclosure information relating to a motor vehicle operator's license, driver's license, motor vehicle title, or registration issued by an agency of this state or an agency of another state or country. Gov't Code § 552.130(a)(1), (2). Upon review, we agree the submitted video recording contains driver's license numbers. In this instance, you state the county attorney does not possess the technological capability to redact information from video files. Thus, we agree the county attorney must withhold the entire video recording under section 552.130 of the Government Code. See Open Records Decision No. 364 (1983). ⁽¹⁾

This letter ruling is limited to the particular information at issue in this request and limited to the facts as presented to us; therefore, this ruling must not be relied upon as a previous determination regarding any other information or any other circumstances.

This ruling triggers important deadlines regarding the rights and responsibilities of the governmental body and of the requestor. For more information concerning those rights and responsibilities, please visit our website at http://www.oag.state.tx.us/open/index_orl.php, or call the Office of the Attorney General's Open Government Hotline, toll free, at (877) 673-6839. Questions concerning the allowable charges for providing public information under the Act must be directed to the Cost Rules Administrator of the Office of the Attorney General, toll free at (888) 672-6787.

Sincerely,

Sean Opperman

Assistant Attorney General

Open Records Division

SO/dls

Ref: ID# 446991

Enc. Submitted documents

c: Requestor

(w/o enclosures)

Footnotes

1. As our ruling is dispositive, we need not address your remaining arguments against disclosure.

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