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Wednesday, February 06, 2008 - Posts

South Carolina legislators considering making concealed weapons permits secret

A Senate panel in South Carolina agreed to make concealed weapons permits secret. The decision was in reaction to a Virginia newspaper that published permit data online. Virginia legislators are on the way toward closing the records there too, also in

Private universities continue to keep serious crimes secret

While eight states (California, Georgia, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia) have specific legislation forcing private universities to make campus crime information public, many states still allow students at