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Wednesday, April 02, 2008 - Posts

Tennessee open government legislation advances

More FOI-friendly legislation continues to advance, including in Tennessee. A Senate committee approved legislation that would require government agencies to respond to a public records request within five business days. The legislation also would create

Mississippi makes police criminal incident reports public

Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour signed into law bills that make criminal incident reports public. That's great news, although it's puzzling that they weren't public before the new law. We need to continue to ensure that criminal reports are public so people