Public records and other matters in the custody of any officer shall be open to inspection by any person at all times during office hours.
A.R.S. § 39-121
Inspection of public records
Applied in 20 court decisions — leading case Arizona Board of Regents v. Phoenix Newspapers, Inc. (1991)
Most recently applied in Lunney v. State (December 2017)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Arizona State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Arizona statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.