§ 2.2-3715 Effect of advisory opinions from the Freedom of Information Advisory Council on liability for willful and knowing violations
Any officer, employee, or member of a public body who is alleged to have committed a willful and knowing violation pursuant to § 2.2-3714 shall have the right to introduce at any proceeding a copy of a relevant advisory opinion issued pursuant to § 30-179 as evidence that he did not willfully and knowingly commit the violation if the alleged violation resulted from his good faith reliance on the advisory opinion.
History
This law was first created in 2019. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 354 of that year’s edition of “Acts of Assembly,” the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.
2019, c. 354.