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237 Ga. 764

229 S.E.2d 624

Houston v. Rutledge

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided October 19, 1976

Supreme Court of Georgia · decided 1976-10-19

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Decided 1976-10-19

How this case has been cited

Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently November 2013 · most notably Deal v. Coleman (2013), Castell v. State (1983)

26 state decisions

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Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

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Ingram, Justice,

¶1concurring.

¶2I concur in the opinion and judgment of the court in this case. However, I would make it clear that, since the files here involved have been determined to be public files, there is a strong presumption that they should be made available for public inspection immediately. Admittedly, there may be some valid reason why the public interest would not be served by immediate disclosure of the files. However, the record before this court fails, in my opinion, to justify nondisclosure at the present time. Therefore, unless the sheriff on remand can show some persuasive reason why the files should not now be made available for *767public inspection, I believe we have a duty under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and Code Ann. § 40-2701 to require the files to be made available for public inspection without further delay.

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