Guam · Sunshine Reform Act of 1999

The Guam Sunshine Reform Act, on a four-working-day clock with a personal penalty behind it

AccessPoint manages public-records requests under the Sunshine Reform Act of 1999 (5 GCA § 10101 et seq.) — the four-working-day response, the ten-day unusual-circumstances extension, the § 10108(a)–(r) limitations, and Superior Court of Guam enforcement with a $1,000 fine that falls on the responsible official personally — pre-configured for Guam and running inside your own Microsoft 365 tenant.

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Guam at a glance

Response standard
Comply, or cite the § 10108 limitation relied on, within four working days of the request; up to ten more days in unusual circumstances with written notice (§ 10103(d)–(e))
Enforcement
No administrative appeal — an action in the Superior Court of Guam at any time; no filing window
Exemptions
The § 10108(a)–(r) limitations — the records the Act does not require to be disclosed
Charges
Inspection is free; copies at direct cost
Oversight
Superior Court of Guam — a $1,000 fine assessed against the responsible official personally (§ 10112) and attorney fees to a prevailing plaintiff
Languages
English

Built for Guam

One platform for the whole access-and-privacy mandate, pre-configured for this regime and running in your own Microsoft 365 tenant.

Sunshine Reform Act lifecycle

Intake to release under 5 GCA § 10101 et seq. — the four-working-day response, the written citation of any § 10108 limitation, and inspection or copies — all on Microsoft 365.

The four-working-day clock

Comply, or cite the limitation relied on, within four working days — and where unusual circumstances apply, issue the written notice extending by up to ten more days. AccessPoint computes both dates over Guam's holiday calendar and escalates before day four.

Limitations (a) through (r)

Each of the § 10108(a)–(r) limitations ships as a citable ground, carried onto the redaction and into the response — because the Act asks the agency to cite the limitation within the same four days it has to comply.

Redaction by limitation

Apply the § 10108 limitations line by line on a colour-coded, audit-trailed redaction record — each redaction tied to the lettered limitation it relies on.

A penalty that is personal

Section 10112 fines the responsible official $1,000 at personal expense while the agency pays the prevailing plaintiff's attorney fees. AccessPoint gives every official on the file a dated record of what was done, by whom, and when.

In your own tenant

Every request and record stays inside your own Microsoft 365 and Azure tenant — no third-party cloud, no cross-border transfers, and no per-user fees.

A personal $1,000

In Guam, stonewalling a request is a bet with the official's own money.

Most public records laws punish the agency, if they punish anyone: a civil penalty paid from public funds, attorney fees the treasury absorbs. Guam's Sunshine Reform Act does something rarer. Section 10112 makes the $1,000 fine for a violation a personal expense of the official responsible — not a line item for the department — while the agency separately pays the prevailing plaintiff's attorney fees. That sits on top of one of the shortest clocks in the United States: four working days to comply or to cite the § 10108 limitation relied on, with at most ten more days in unusual circumstances, and a Superior Court action available at any time once the deadline passes. AccessPoint gives every official on the file the same answer to that exposure: a dated record showing the request logged on arrival, the search tasked, the limitation cited, and the response sent inside day four.

$1,000, personally Assessed against the responsible official, not the agency.
Four working days Comply or cite the limitation; ten more days only in unusual circumstances.
Cite the limitation The § 10108 letter on every withholding, inside the clock.

Configured out of the box

Installing the us-gu-sunshine jurisdiction pack seeds your tenant with everything this regime needs — a starting point you can adjust, not a lock-in.

Pack content last reviewed: 2026-09-03

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  • The Sunshine Reform Act of 1999 (5 GCA § 10101 et seq.) as the legal-authority and citation spine
  • The Guam government-holiday calendar and the four-working-day response and ten-day unusual-circumstances due-date rules
  • The § 10108(a)–(r) limitations, colour-coded for redaction and citable line by line
  • The unusual-circumstances written notice under § 10103(e)
  • Free inspection and direct-cost copy charges, itemized
  • Guam timeliness tracking that escalates before day four — the point at which administrative remedies are treated as exhausted
  • The Superior Court record — the timestamped trail that answers a § 10112 claim against an official personally
  • Sunshine Reform Act correspondence templates with statutory wording
A jurisdiction pack's detail panel in AccessPoint settings, showing the pack description, version, what's new, and the checklist of items it imports: legal authorities, calendars, request statuses, request types, extension reasons, requestor categories and consultation types Click to enlarge
What a pack looks like in Settings (the Ontario municipal pack shown): the description, the version and what changed in it, and every item it imports with its statutory basis. Anything you have customized is never overwritten on update.

Guam Questions

How quickly must a Guam agency respond?
Within four working days of the request, the agency must comply or cite the § 10108 limitation it relies on. In unusual circumstances it may extend by up to ten more days with written notice to the requester. Once the deadline passes without a response, administrative remedies are treated as exhausted and the requester may go to the Superior Court of Guam. AccessPoint computes both dates on receipt and drafts the notice.

What are the § 10108 limitations?
Section 10108(a) through (r) lists the records the Sunshine Reform Act does not require an agency to disclose. Because the Act asks the agency to cite the limitation relied on within the same four working days it has to comply, AccessPoint ships each lettered limitation as a citable ground carried onto the redaction and into the response.

Who pays the penalty for a Sunshine Reform Act violation?
The official responsible. Under § 10112 the $1,000 fine is assessed as the personal expense of the official who violated the Act, while the agency pays the prevailing plaintiff's attorney fees. AccessPoint's contemporaneous, timestamped trail — who did what, when, and on which limitation — is the practical protection for the people on the file.

Where does data reside?
Entirely within your own Microsoft 365 and Azure tenant. Requests, documents, and audit history never leave your control — no third-party cloud, no vendor access, and no cross-border data transfers.

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  • Under 500 employees$2,990/yr
  • 500–2,000 employees$7,990/yr
  • Over 2,000 employees$14,990/yr

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