Legislature.

(1) The Legislative Open Records Act requires that a legislative record, as defined, be open to public inspection unless the record is exempt from disclosure under the act. The act provides that specified legislative committees are the custodians of all legislative records and requires that requests to inspect legislative records be submitted to the appropriate committee. Under the act, the custodian committee is required, upon receiving a request, to either produce the requested legislative record or justify in writing the withholding of the record by demonstrating that the record is exempt from disclosure under the act. The act exempts from disclosure, among other records, preliminary…