July 12, 2012

Ms. Donna L. Johnson

Attorney for City of Hilshire Village

Olson & Olson, LLP

2727 Allen Parkway, Suite 600

Houston, Texas 77019-2133

OR2012-10814

Dear Ms. Johnson:

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# 459171.

The City of Hilshire Village (the "city"), which you represent, received a request for the topographic survey pertaining to a specified address. You claim the requested information is subject to a previous ruling issued by this office. We have considered your arguments.

You state the information at issue was the subject of a previous request for a ruling, in response to which this office issued Open Records Letter No. 2012-06662 (2012). In this prior ruling, we ruled the city may withhold the submitted information under section 552.103 of the Government Code. As we have no indication that there has been any change in the law, facts, or circumstances on which the previous ruling was based, we conclude the city may rely on Open Records Letter No. 2012-06662 as a previous determination and withhold the requested information in accordance with it. See Open Records Decision No. 673 (2001) (so long as law, facts, and circumstances on which prior ruling was based have not changed, first type of previous determination exists where requested information is precisely same information as was addressed in prior attorney general ruling, ruling is addressed to same governmental body, and ruling concludes that information is or is not excepted from disclosure).

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,

Misty Haberer Barham

Assistant Attorney General

Open Records Division

MHB/som

Ref: ID# 459171

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