Oklahoma § 51-24A.10 - Full disclosure of voluntarily supplied information

§ 51-24A.10. Full disclosure of voluntarily supplied information

A. Any information, records or other material heretofore

voluntarily supplied to any state agency, board or commission shall

be subject to full disclosure pursuant to Section 24A.1 et seq. of

this title.

B. If disclosure would give an unfair advantage to competitors

or bidders, a public body may keep confidential records relating to:

1. Bid specifications for competitive bidding prior to

publication by the public body;

2. Contents of sealed bids prior to the opening of bids by a

public body;

3. Computer programs or software but not data thereon;

4. Appraisals relating to the sale or acquisition of real

estate by a public body prior to award of a contract; or

5. The prospective location of a private business or industry

prior to public disclosure of such prospect except for records

otherwise open to inspection such as applications for permits or

licenses.

C. Except as set forth hereafter, the Oklahoma Department of

Commerce, the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology

Education, the technology center school districts, the Oklahoma Film

and Music Office, institutions within the Oklahoma State System of

Higher Education and the Department of Corrections may keep

confidential:

1. Business plans, feasibility studies, financing proposals,

marketing plans, financial statements or trade secrets submitted by

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a person or entity seeking economic advice, business development or

customized training from such Departments or school districts;

2. Proprietary information of the business submitted to the

Department or school districts for the purpose of business

development or customized training, and related confidentiality

agreements detailing the information or records designated as

confidential; and

3. Information compiled by such Departments or school districts

in response to those submissions.

The Oklahoma Department of Commerce, the Oklahoma Department of

Career and Technology Education, the technology center school

districts, the Oklahoma Film and Music Office, institutions within

the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education and the Department of

Corrections may not keep confidential that submitted information

when and to the extent the person or entity submitting the

information consents to disclosure.

D. Although they must provide public access to their records

including records of the address, rate paid for services, charges,

consumption rates, adjustments to the bill, reasons for adjustment,

the name of the person that authorized the adjustment and payment

for each customer, public bodies that provide utility services to

the public shall keep confidential and shall redact from any record,

personal email addresses, credit information, credit card numbers,

telephone numbers, social security numbers, bank account information

for individual customers and any portion of any record that contains

the name or any other identifier of the occupants of any residential

structure. Public bodies that provide utility services to the

public may keep confidential utility supply and utility equipment

supply contracts for any industrial customer with a connected

electric load in excess of two thousand five hundred (2,500)

kilowatts if public access to such contracts would give an unfair

advantage to competitors of the customer; provided that, where a

public body performs billing or collection services for a utility

regulated by the Corporation Commission pursuant to a contractual

agreement, any customer or individual payment data obtained or

created by the public body in performance of the agreement shall not

be a record for purposes of the Oklahoma Open Records Act.

Added by Laws 1985, c. 355, § 10, eff. Nov. 1, 1985. Amended by

Laws 1988, c. 187, § 5, emerg. eff. June 6, 1988; Laws 1996, c. 209,

§ 4, eff. Nov. 1, 1996; Laws 2004, c. 186, § 1, emerg. eff. May 3,

2004; Laws 2006, c. 18, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2006; Laws 2007, c. 6, §

1, eff. Nov. 1, 2007; Laws 2008, c. 284, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2008;

Laws 2009, c. 158, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2009; Laws 2010, c. 161, § 1;

Laws 2015, c. 41, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2015; Laws 2018, c. 197, § 1;

Laws 2022, c. 307, § 3.

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§51-24A.10a. Oklahoma Medical Center - Market research and

marketing plans - Confidentiality.

The Oklahoma Medical Center may keep confidential market

research conducted by and marketing plans developed by the Oklahoma

Medical Center if the Center determines that disclosure of such

research or plans would give an unfair advantage to competitors of

the Oklahoma Medical Center regarding marketing research and

planning, public education, and advertising and promotion of special

and general services provided by the Oklahoma Medical Center.

Added by Laws 1988, c. 266, § 22, operative July 1, 1988.