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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>59602</law_id><section_number>2.2-3704.01</section_number><catch_line>Records containing both excluded and nonexcluded information; duty to redact</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>2.2-3705.1</reference><reference>2.2-3705.2</reference><reference>2.2-3705.3</reference><reference>2.2-3705.5</reference><reference>2.2-3705.6</reference><reference>2.2-3705.7</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="2.2">Administration of Government</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Administration of State Government</unit><unit label="part" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="B">Transaction of Public Business</unit><unit label="chapter" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="37">Virginia Freedom of Information Act</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>No provision of this chapter is intended, nor shall it be construed or applied, to authorize a <span class="dictionary">public body</span> to withhold a public record in its entirety on the grounds that some portion of the public record is excluded from disclosure by this chapter or by any other provision of <span class="dictionary">law</span>. A public record may be withheld from disclosure in its entirety only to the extent that an exclusion from disclosure under this chapter or other provision of <span class="dictionary">law</span> applies to the entire content of the public record. Otherwise, only those portions of the public record containing information subject to an exclusion under this chapter or other provision of <span class="dictionary">law</span> may be withheld, and all portions of the public record that are not so excluded shall be disclosed.</p></section></text><history>2016, cc. 620, 716.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
