So begins the Mississippi Open Meetings Law, establishing the principle that
public government must be open to the public. The Mississippi Public Records
Act grants citizens the right of public access to public records:
All
public records are hereby declared to be public property, and
any person shall have the right to inspect, copy of mechanically
reproduce or obtain a reproduction of any public record of
a public body in accordance with reasonable written procedures…No
public body shall adopt procedures which will authorize
the public body to produce or deny the production of a
public record later than fourteen working days from the
date of request for the production of such record. THE CENTER'S MISSION
The mission of the Mississippi Center for Freedom of Information
is to safeguard these freedoms that protect the public’s right to know about the public’s
business.

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