Correspondence received from the defendant is a governmental record.

• A. Not Addressed
• B. True
• C. False
• D. Not Applicable

Answer: (B)

The main idea is that government records include documents created or received by a government body in the course of its official duties. When the court (a government entity) receives correspondence from the defendant, that communication is received in the performance of official functions and becomes part of the court’s official records. So the statement is true: the defendant’s correspondence is a governmental record.

In practice, such records may be subject to public-access rules or confidentiality rules depending on the jurisdiction and the nature of the material, but the fact remains that receiving the correspondence makes it a governmental record.