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Attorney, 171 N.H. 424, 427 (2018); accord Mans v. Lebanon School Bd., 112 N.H. 160, 162 (1972) (“Plaintiff’s rights under [the Right-to-Know Law] do not depend upon his demonstrating a need for the information.”).

We have previously recognized that an “expansive construction” of the language in RSA 91-A:5, IV 8 that establishes exemptions would allow “the exemption to swallow the rule and is inconsistent with the purposes and objectives of the right-to-know law.” Mans v. Lebanon School Bd., 112 N.H. 160, 162 (1972); see Herron v. Northwood, 111 N.H. 324, 327 (1971) (observing that the legislature “has placed a high premium on the public’s right to know”).

Before Fenniman was decided, we had consistently applied a balancing test to the disclosure of records pertaining to “confidential” and “financial information.” See Chambers v. Gregg, 135 N.H. 478, 481 (1992); Menge v. Manchester, 113 N.H. 533, 537-38 (1973); Mans v. Lebanon School Bd., 112 N.H. 160, 162-64 (1972).

See, e.g., Montenegro, 162 N.H. at 650; Mans v. Lebanon School Bd., 112 N.H. 160, 162-63 (1972).

[§] 552(b)(2), (4) and (6),” Mans v. Lebanon School Bd., 112 N.H. 160, 162-63 (1972).

2008) (ruling that the patients listed in hospital admission records “have a substantial privacy interest in avoiding disclosure of the fact that they sought medical treatment”); cf. Mans v. Lebanon School Bd., 112 N.H. 160, 164 (1972) (ruling that, in light of the legislature’s finding that disclosure of the salaries of public school teachers is not a disclosure of “intimate details,” such a disclosure does not “constitute an invasion of privacy” (quotations omitted)).

We have stated that this section “means that financial information and personnel files and other information necessary to an individual’s privacy need not be disclosed.” Mans v. Lebanon School Bd., 112 N.H. 160, 162 (1972).

*708 In ruling that LGC must disclose the specific salary information sought, the trial court followed our decision in Mans v. Lebanon School Board, 112 N.H. 160 (1972), and ruled that LGC employees “are entitled to no greater privacy interest in their salaries than are public employees.” We agree.

Mans v. Lebanon School Bd., 112 N.H. 160, 162-63 (1972); see also N.H. Housing Fin.

Mans v. Lebanon School Bd., 112 N.H. 160, 162 (1972).

Perras v. Clements, 127 N.H. 603, 605, 503 A.2d 843, 844 (1986); Menge, 113 N.H. at 537-38, 311 A.2d at 119; cf. Mans v. Lebanon School Bd., 112 N.H. 160, 162, 290 A.2d 866, 867 (1972) (“Subsection IV means that financial information and personnel files and other information necessary to an individual’s privacy need not be disclosed.”).

See, e.g., Chambers v. Gregg, 135 N.H. 478, 481, 606 A.2d 811, 813 (1992); Mans v. Lebanon School Bd., 112 N.H. 160, 162, 290 A.2d 866, 867 (1972).

Although we generally interpret the exemptions in RSA chapter 91-A restrictively to further the purposes of the Right-to-Know Law, see Mans v. Lebanon School Bd., 112 N.H. 160, 162-63, 290 A.2d 866, 867 (1972), the plain meanings of the words “internal,” “personnel,” and “practices” are themselves quite broad, see WEBSTER’S Third New International Dictionary 1180, 1687, 1780 (unabridged ed. 1961).

Mans v. Lebanon School Bd., 112 N.H. 160, 162, 290 A.2d 866, 867 (1972).

While this court has determined that this provision does not exempt teachers’ contracts and salary information from *427 public inspection, Mans v. Lebanon School Board, 112 N.H. 160, 164, 290 A.2d 866, 868 (1972), we have not heretofore determined whether or not student names and addresses, and the names of their parents, are exempt.

Mans v. Lebanon School Bd., 112 N.H. 160, 290 A.2d 866 (1972).

Mans v. Lebanon School Bd., 112 N.H. 160, 163, 190 A.2d 866, 867 (1972).

RSA 91-A:4; Mans v. Lebanon School Bd., 112 N.H. 160, 290 A.2d 866 (1972).

In determining what is or is not a public record we have said, with regard to salaries of local teachers, that “the benefits of disclosure to the public are to be balanced against the benefits of nondisclosure to the administration of the school system and to the teachers.” Mans v. Lebanon School Bd., 112 N.H. 160, 162, 290 A.2d 866, 867 (1972).

or her attorney by simple inquiry directed either to the State of New Hampshire or to Keene State College.” See Laws 1967, 251:1, now RSA 91-A:4 (Supp. 1975); Mans v. Lebanon School Bd., 112 N.H. 160, 290 A.2d 866 (1972).

Mans v. Lebanon School Bd., 112 N.H. 160, 290 A.2d 866 (1972); Herron v. Northwood, 111 N.H. 324, 282 A.2d 661 (1971).

Defendant’s motion to set aside the decree was denied and his exceptions were transferred by Morris, J. In Mans v. Lebanon School Board, 112 N.H. 160, 290 A.2d 866 (1972), it was held that RSA ch. 91-A required the disclosure of the salaries of teachers.

Mans v. Lebanon School Bd., 112 N.H. 160, 163, 290 A.2d 866, 867 (1972).