September 18, 2012

Ms. Claire Yancey

Assistant District Attorney

Denton County Criminal District Attorney's Office

P.O. Box 2850

Denton, Texas 76202

OR2012-14832

Dear Ms. Yancey:

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# 465207.

The Denton County Criminal District Attorney's Office (the "district attorney's office") received a request for a specified letter sent by a named individual to the State Bar of Texas, pertaining to two named assistant prosecutors. Although the district attorney's office takes no position as to the public availability of the submitted letter, you indicate release of this information may implicate the assistant prosecutors' privacy interests. Accordingly, you state that the district attorney's office notified the assistant prosecutors of this request for information and of their right to submit arguments to this office as to why the requested documents should not be released. See Gov't Code § 552.304 (providing that interested party may submit comments stating why information should or should not be released). We have reviewed the submitted information.

As of the date of this letter, we have not received any comments from the assistant prosecutors explaining why any portion of the submitted information should not be released to the requestor. As no exceptions to disclosure have been raised, the submitted information must be released.

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,

Cynthia G. Tynan

Assistant Attorney General

Open Records Division

CGT/akg

Ref: ID# 465207

Enc. Submitted documents

c: Requestor

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