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Tag: House bill

Empowering Public Agencies to Stop Citizen FOIA Requests – Another S.C. First?

Posted on March 23, 2015

A House-passed bill allowing South Carolina public agencies to take legal action against citizens who file “unduly burdensome” or “overly broad” open-records requests could be the first law of its kind in the country if enacted, several legal observers say.

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