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BUKOWSKI v. CITY OF DETROIT

Docket No. 129409.

732 N.W.2d 75 (2007)

478 Mich. 268

Diane BUKOWSKI and Michigan Citizen, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. CITY OF DETROIT, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

June 6, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerome D. Goldberg, P.L.L.C. (by Jerome D. Goldberg), Southfield, for the plaintiffs.

John E. Johnson, Jr., Corporation Counsel, and Jeffrey S. Jones, Assistant Corporation Counsel, for the defendant.

Butzel Long (by Dawn P. Hertz) for amicus curiae the Michigan Press Association.

CLIFFORD W. TAYLOR, MAURA D. CORRIGAN, ROBERT P. YOUNG, JR., and STEPHEN J. MARKMAN, JJ., concur.

MEMORANDUM OPINION.

The single issue we consider in this case is whether the "frank communication" exemption, MCL 15.243(1)(m), of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), exempts communications and notes that are no longer preliminary to a final agency determination of policy or action, even if those communications and notes were preliminary at the time that they were made. The Court of Appeals held that the frank communication exemption does not protect from disclosure...

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