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Opinion Letter No. 92-11
August 12, 1992
Subsidized Housing Program
Applicant waiting lists for the City’s Section
8 rent-subsidized housing program must be made
available for public inspection and copying under the UIPA. Although
the mailing addresses and home
telephone numbers of the applicants must be deleted before the disclosure
of the waiting list, the
names of the applicants, their numerical ranks, and the yes/no column
indicating screening for financial eligibility are not protected
by any of the UIPA’s exceptions to required public disclosure.
Because the applicants’ names were publicly announced at the
lottery to establish the waiting list, and also because there is
great public interest in learning whether the waiting list procedure
is being followed properly, the public interest in disclosure of
the waiting list outweighs the privacy interests of the individual
applicants.
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