Two former Georgia Attorneys General, both known for advocating for the right to access public records, have been hired to represent the City of Atlanta in civil and criminal cases involving alleged violations of the Georgia Open Records Act. One of them, Sam Olens, a Republican, revamped the open records law in 2012, making penalties for noncompliance […]
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The Georgia Court of Appeals has ruled that academic research at a public college is exempt from the state Open Records Act.
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Is the nonprofit Northside Hospital Inc. subject to the state’s open records law?
The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday heard arguments on the high-profile case, which involves Northside’s rejection of requests for information about financial documents and other matters.
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A west Georgia court is jailing people illegally and then making it impossible for them to challenge the violation of their rights by denying them access to their public court records, a lawsuit alleges.
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From The Augusta Chronicle:
ATLANTA — Four of Georgia’s utility regulators have accepted at least 70 percent of their campaign contributions from companies and people that could profit from the agency’s decisions, a review of five years of campaign finance records by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution revealed.
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