2005 Idaho Code - 9-337 — DEFINITIONS

                                   TITLE  9
                                   EVIDENCE
                                  CHAPTER 3
                               PUBLIC WRITINGS
    9-337.  DEFINITIONS. As used in sections 9-337 through 9-347, Idaho Code:
    (1)  "Applicant" means any person formally seeking a paid or volunteer
position with a public agency. "Applicant" does not include any person seeking
appointment to a position normally filled by election.
    (2)  "Copy" means transcribing by handwriting, photocopying, duplicating
machine and reproducing by any other means so long as the public record is not
altered or damaged.
    (3)  "Custodian" means the person having personal custody and control of
the public records in question. If no such designation is made by the public
agency or independent public body corporate and politic, then custodian means
any public official having custody of, control of, or authorized access to
public records and includes all delegates of such officials, employees or
representatives.
    (4)  "Independent public body corporate and politic" means the Idaho
housing and finance association as created in chapter 62, title 67, Idaho
Code.
    (5)  "Inspect" means the right to listen, view and make notes of public
records as long as the public record is not altered or damaged.
    (6)  "Investigatory record" means information with respect to an
identifiable person, group of persons or entities compiled by a public agency
or independent public body corporate and politic pursuant to its statutory
authority in the course of investigating a specific act, omission, failure to
act, or other conduct over which the public agency or independent public body
corporate and politic has regulatory authority or law enforcement authority.
    (7)  "Law enforcement agency" means any state or local agency given law
enforcement powers or which has authority to investigate, enforce, prosecute
or punish violations of state or federal criminal statutes, ordinances or
regulations.
    (8)  "Local agency" means a county, city, school district, municipal
corporation, district, public health district, political subdivision,  or any
agency thereof, or any committee of a local agency, or any combination
thereof.
    (9)  "Person" means any natural person, corporation, partnership, firm,
association, joint venture, state or local agency or any other recognized
legal entity.
    (10) "Prisoner" means a person who has been convicted of a crime and is
either incarcerated or on parole for that crime or who is being held in
custody for trial or sentencing.
    (11) "Public agency" means any state or local agency as defined in this
section.
    (12) "Public official" means any state, county, local district,
independent public body corporate and politic or governmental official or
employee, whether elected, appointed or hired.
    (13) "Public record" includes, but is not limited to, any writing
containing information relating to the conduct or administration of the
public's business prepared,  owned, used or retained by any state agency,
independent public body corporate and politic or local agency regardless of
physical form or characteristics.
    (14) "State agency" means every state officer, department, division,
bureau, commission and board or any committee of a state agency including
those in the legislative or judicial branch, except the state militia.
    (15) "Writing" includes, but is not limited to, handwriting, typewriting,
printing, photostating, photographing and every means of recording, including
letters, words, pictures, sounds or symbols or combination thereof, and all
papers, maps, magnetic or paper tapes, photographic films and prints, magnetic
or punched cards, discs, drums or other documents.