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Closing public records is scary path to walk

Posted on February 4, 2013

Editorial from NatchezDemocrat.com:

When government filing cabinets and computers start locking, our great nation loses part of the freedom that makes us America.

Yet, a shocking number of elected officials in the Mississippi House of Representatives appear ready to do just that in response to just one incident hundreds of miles away.

Tagged Mississippi Freedom of Information Act, mississippi public records

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