eat ‘intone City of Cooke Cn cma onic City Attorney Quality of Life for May 27, 2016 Mr. Patrick Ande: Argus Leader 200 $ Minnesota Avenue Sioux Falls, SD $7104 Re: Public Records Request Dear Mr, Anderson, ‘This letter is in response to your informal public records request to the Mayor for a "memory file”. Your request is denied. The bases for denial are as follows: (a) The request includes correspondence and other materials Which are exempt feom the public records law under SD\ 1-27-1.5(12}; (b) The request includes attorney-client confidential communications which are exempt from the public records law under SDCL § 1-27-1.5(4) and privileged under SDCL ch, 19-3; (6) The request includes internal agency records or information which are exempt from the public records law under SDCL § 1-27-1,5(24); and (a) The request includes ephemera that are not records, In addition to the exemptions for specific items, release of this collection of items ("memory file”) as a whole or even disclosure of the types and order of the items in such memory file would reveal the private thought processes and mental impressions of the Mayor. The South Dakota public records law is not intended to require public release of individual mental process at all, let alone & compilation, such as would be involved here. For example theMr, Patrick Anderson Page 2 May 27, 2016 decisional processes of public officials are exempt under SDCL § 1-27-1.9, internal agency records are exempt under SDCL § 1-27-1.5(24), personal, correspondence and records of public officials are exempt under SDCL § 1- 27-1,5(19), and records that would constitute an unreasonable release of person information are exempt under SDCL § 1.27 1.623). Any documents in this file that might otherwise be public would be available elsewhere without revealing the context or importance afforded to such items by the Mayor. kSinnbut Assistant City Attorney DB/ar