October 5, 2012

Ms. Donna L. Johnson

Olson & Olson, L.L.P.

Wortham Tower, Suite 600

2727 Allen Parkway

Houston, Texas 77019-2133

OR2012-15964

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# 467196 (COC12-037).

The City of Cleveland (the "city"), which you represent, received a request for information pertaining to funds paid to or received by the city in connection with the photographic traffic signal enforcement system for a specified time period. You state most of the requested information has been or will be released to the requestor. You claim portions of the submitted information are excepted from disclosure under section 552.130 of the Government Code. ⁽¹⁾ We have considered the exception you claim and reviewed the submitted representative sample of information. ⁽²⁾

Section 552.130(a)(2) of the Government Code excepts from disclosure information related to a motor vehicle title or registration issued by an agency of this state or another state or country. Gov't Code § 552.130(a)(2). Upon review, we agree the city must withhold the vehicle identification number you have highlighted under section 552.130 of the Government Code. As no other exceptions are raised, the remaining 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,

Ana Carolina Vieira

Assistant Attorney General

Open Records Division

ACV/ag

Ref: ID# 467196

Enc. Submitted documents

c: Requestor

(w/o enclosures)

Footnotes

1. Although you do not specifically raise section 552.130 of the Government Code in your brief, we understand you to raise this section based on your arguments and markings in the submitted information.

2. We assume the "representative sample" of records submitted to this office is truly representative of the requested records as a whole. See Open Records Decision Nos. 499 (1988), 497 (1988). This open records letter does not reach, and therefore does not authorize the withholding of, any other requested records to the extent those records contain substantially different types of information than those submitted to this office.

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