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Mississippi Center for Freedom of Information, Inc.

(A member of NFOIC)

Department of Journalism
University of Mississippi
University, MS 38677
Contact: Jeanni Atkins, Executive Director
Phone (662) 915-7146
Fax (662) 915-7765
http://www.mcfoi.org/
E-mail iatkins@olemiss.edu

QUICK FOI INFORMATION

Open Meetings Law Miss. Code Ann. 25-4-1 et seq.
Closed: Personnel matters; impending litigation; security personnel, plans, and devices; misconduct investigations; extraordinary emergencies posing immediate or irrevocable harm to persons or property; the purchase, sale or leasing of lands; admissions tests; and the location, relocation or expansion of a business or industry.

Open Records Law Miss. Code Ann 25-61-1 et seq.
Exempt: Personnel matters; employment applications; individual tax records; academic examination questions; appraisal information concerning the sale or purchase of property for public purposes; and attorney work product concerning litigation.

CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI

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CONTACTS

• Office of the Attorney General
• Carroll Gartin Justice Building
• 450 High Street
• Jackson, MS 39201
• Phone (601) 359-368
• http://www.ago.state.ms.us/
• E-mail msag05@ago.state.ms.us

• Mississippi State Bar
• P.O. Box 2168
• 643 North State St.
• Jackson, MS 39225-2168
• Phone (601) 948-4471 | Fax (601) 355-8635
• http://www.msbar.org/
• E-mail info@msbar.org

• Mississippi Press Association
• 371 Edgewood Terrace
• Jackson, MS 39206-6217
• Phone (601) 981-3060
• Fax (601) 981-3676
• www.mspress.org/
• mpa@mspress.org

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FORM LETTERS

• The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
• 1101 Wilson Blvd., Suite 1100
• Arlington, Virginia 22209
• Phone (800) 336-4243 or (703) 807-2100
• E-mail rcfp@rcfp.org
• FOI Letter Generator

• Student Press Law Center
• 1101 Wilson Blvd., Suite 1100
• Arlington, Virginia 22209
• Phone (703) 807-1904
• E-mail splc@splc.org
• Request Letter Generator

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PUBLICATIONS

Mass Communication Law in Mississippi
by Gene Wiggins. New Forums Press, Stillwater, OK, 1992, 98 p.
Price: $8.95 plus $1.50 shipping
Order from:
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Open Government Guide from the
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press

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