Challenging Government Secrecy Can put Holes in People’s Pocketbooks

If someone steals your car in Mississippi, you call the police. If someone defrauds you, you call the attorney general.

If someone denies you access to public records, no taxpayer-funded agency will help you. Instead, you hire an attorney.

In Mississippi, a state with a long history of government secrecy, it can be difficult, expensive, time consuming — and sometimes an all but impossible — to know what government leaders are up to and what special interests pull their strings.

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