Open Records Requests

Lamar County will respond to Open Records Requests as provided for by the Official Code of Georgia. Please contact us at 770-358-5146 or fax us at 770-358-5149 if you have an open records request. You can also mail your request to the following address:

Lamar County Board of Commissioners
408 Thomaston Street, Suite E
Barnesville, Ga. 30204

In accordance with the Georgia Statute, any copies would be provided at the cost provided for in O.C.G.A. §50-18-71(b). To that end, the costs of any copies would be on the basis of $.10 per regular page. Also, the requestor is responsible for the time expended beyond the initial fifteen (15) minutes to search for the documents, to retrieve the documents and to copy them or to supervise the requestor’s inspection of them, billable at the rate of the lowest salaried full time employee capable of performing this task in view of the custodian.


Open Records Act Resources

The Open Meetings and Open Records Act
Office of the Attorney General’s Open Government FAQ

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