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tive and judicial errors and returning the law to the straightforward requirement that government contracts be fully released after awarded to a third party unless the third party met a high burden, SB 943 approaches the issue from the top down, declaring a broad range of governmental economic activity to fall within the definition of “contracting information,” which is, however, itself subject to a new exception that allows withholding based on specific factual evidence that disclosure of the information would “reveal an individual approach” to aspects of the business that would “give advantage to a competitor” —the same burden as Boeing. But SB 943 also specifically lists contracting information that can never fall within this exception that, notably, includes “the overall or total price the governmental body will or could potentially pay,” “a description of the items or services to be delivered with the total price for each if a total price is identified for the item or service in the contract,” “information indicating whether a vendor performed its duties under a contract,” and other basic contract information that has been withheld from the public since the Boeing decision.4 While an extensive list of information, it also doesn’t clearly shine a light into dark corners of some governmental contracts which are often complex. SB 943 also incorporates AGcreated “government trade secrets” interpretation into law, essentially setting the burden at the pre-Boeing standard where the governmental body establishes the “situation at issue is set to reoccur or there is a specific and demonstrable intent to enter into the competitive situation again in the future.”5 There has been a lawsuit regarding proper application of SB 943 already since its January 2, 2020 ef-
