A decision handed down by the Georgia Court of Appeals has clarified records containing information protected by Georgia’s Lethal Injection Secrecy Act are still subject to disclosure in redacted form in accord with the state’s Open Records Act.
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When investigative journalist Max Blau submitted two Open Records Act requests to the Georgia Department of Corrections seeking information about the purchase, acquisition, transportation and handling of the drugs it had or intended to use for executions by lethal injection, his requests got denied.
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