Public Records Taxpayer acknowledges that GO-Biz is subject to the California Public Records Act (PRA) (Gov. Code, § 6250 et seq.). This Agreement and materials submitted by Taxpayer to GO-Biz may be subject to a PRA request. In such an event, GO-Biz will notify Taxpayer, as soon as practicable that a PRA request for Taxpayer’s information has been received, but not less than five (5) business days prior to the release of the requested information to allow Taxpayer to seek an injunction. GO-Biz will work in good faith with Taxpayer to protect the information to the extent an exemption is provided by law, including, but not limited to, notes, drafts, proprietary information, financial information, and trade secret information. GO-Biz will also apply the “balancing test” as provided for under Government Code section 6255, to the extent applicable. Notwithstanding the foregoing, GO-Biz agrees that any information provided to GO-Biz by the FTB, in connection with this Agreement will be treated as confidential tax information protected by Article 2 (commencing with Section 19542) of Chapter 7 of Part 10.2 of the RTC, assuming that FTB can rely on such a section and shall not be disclosed to any party, other than personnel of GO-Biz or the Committee, without Taxpayer’s prior written consent. Taxpayer acknowledges that this Agreement in whole or in part will be made available to the public at least ten (10) calendar days prior to the Committee hearing. Pursuant to RTC sections 17059.2 and 23689, in the event of approval by the Committee of this Agreement, Taxpayer acknowledges and agrees that GO-Biz will post on its website the following information:
Public Record That this Agreement shall become public upon the Effective Date.
Public Records Requests If the Department receives a public records request for materials designated by the Contractor as trade secret or otherwise confidential under Florida or federal law, the Contractor will be responsible for taking the appropriate legal action in response to the request. If the Contractor fails to take appropriate and timely action to protect the materials designated as trade secret or otherwise confidential, the Department will provide the materials to the requester.
PUBLIC RECORDS ACT This Agreement and all public records associated with this Agreement shall be available from the COUNTY for inspection and copying by the public where required by the Public Records Act, Chapter 42.56 RCW (the “Act”). To the extent that public records then in the custody of the ORGANIZATION are needed for the COUNTY to respond to a request under the Act, as determined by the COUNTY, the ORGANIZATION agrees to make them promptly available to the COUNTY. If the ORGANIZATION considers any portion of any record provided to the COUNTY under this Agreement, whether in electronic or hard copy form, to be protected from disclosure under law, the ORGANIZATION shall clearly identify any specific information that it claims to be confidential or proprietary. If the COUNTY receives a request under the Act to inspect or copy the information so identified by the ORGANIZATION and the COUNTY determines that release of the information is required by the Act or otherwise appropriate, the COUNTY’s sole obligations shall be to notify the ORGANIZATION (a) of the request and (b) of the date that such information will be released to the requester unless the ORGANIZATION obtains a court order to enjoin that disclosure pursuant to RCW 42.56.540. If the ORGANIZATION fails to timely obtain a court order enjoining disclosure, the COUNTY will release the requested information on the date specified. The COUNTY has, and by this section assumes, no obligation on behalf of the ORGANIZATION to claim any exemption from disclosure under the Act. The COUNTY shall not be liable to the ORGANIZATION for releasing records not clearly identified by the ORGANIZATION as confidential or proprietary. The COUNTY shall not be liable to the ORGANIZATION for any records that the COUNTY releases in compliance with this section or in compliance with an order of a court of competent jurisdiction. ORGANIZATION agrees to indemnify and, to the greatest extent legally possible, to hold harmless the COUNTY in any action by a third party due to the negligence, recklessness or intentional actions by the ORGANIZATION relating to is performance of this contract. This includes any lawsuit filed by a third party for the COUNTY’s allegedly improper release of confidential or proprietary information pursuant to a public records request.
