This citation is used to support the principle that once a public agency states it does not possess any responsive records, the burden shifts to the requester to present a prima facie case that the requested records do exist. It is also cited to emphasize that an agency needs to make a good faith effort to conduct a search using methods which can reasonably be expected to produce the records requested.
95-ORD-096 was Cited by 22-ORD-184
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