Once a public record, always a public record

Or so says this story about consolidated animal feeding operations, or CAFO s in Idaho.
An Idaho Supreme Court decision there maintains that feedlot nutrient management plans that are not held in government hands are still accessible under freedom of information laws. This may mean that even if National Animal Identification databases are held in private hands activist groups can access them. This has been a big sticking point to implementation of the plan as no one wants every Tom, Dick and troublemaker in the country to know how many animals they own, where they are, how old they are etc.