B. Whose records are and are not subject to the act?

The Alabama Public Records Law does not classify or list those officers and entities that are or are not subject to its provisions. Other statutes, however, require "[a]ll public officers and servants" to make and keep such records "as at all times shall afford full and detailed information in reference to the activities or business required to be done or carried on by such officer or servant and from which the actual status and condition of such activities and business can be ascertained without extraneous information," Ala. Code § 36-12-2 (2001), and "[e]very public officer having custody of a public writing which a citizen has a right to inspect" to make a certified copy available on demand "on payment of the legal fees therefor," Ala. Code § 36-12-41 (2001).

Furthermore, section 36-12-1 defines "public officer or servant" broadly as including, "in addition to the ordinary public offices, departments, commissions, bureaus and boards of the state and the public officers and servants of counties and municipalities, all persons whatsoever occupying positions in state institutions." See also Scott v. Culpepper, 220 Ala. 393, 393, 125 So. 643, 643 (1930) ("[E]very one who is appointed to discharge a public duty and receives compensation therefor, in whatever shape, is a 'public officer'"; applying Public Records Law). The Public Records Law, or its predecessor, has been applied to the entities and officers listed by category below.