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Miss. Code Ann. § 25-1-100

Certain personnel records exempt from public access requirements; exceptions

Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case 740 So. 2d 925 - MS DEPT. OF WILDLIFE v. Wildlife Enf. Off. (1999)

Most recently applied in Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts v. Attorney General of Texas and the Dallas Morning News, Ltd. (December 2010)

Laws, 1983, ch. 424, § 12; Laws, 1994, ch. 401, § 2; Laws, 2015, ch. 431, § 3, eff from and after July 1, 2015.

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(1) Personnel records and applications for employment in the possession of a public body, as defined by paragraph (a) of Section 25-61-3, except those which may be released to the person who made the application or with the prior written consent of the person who made the application, shall be exempt from the provisions of the Mississippi Public Records Act of 1983.

(2) Test questions and answers in the possession of a public body, as defined by paragraph (a) of Section 25-61-3, which are to be used in employment examinations, shall be exempt from the provisions of the Mississippi Public Records Act of 1983.

(3) Letters of recommendation in the possession of a public body, as defined by paragraph (a) of Section 25-61-3, respecting any application for employment, shall be exempt from the provisions of the Mississippi Public Records Act of 1983.

(4) Documents relating to contract authorization under Section 25-9-120 shall not be exempt from the provisions of Mississippi Public Records Act of 1983.

(5) Contracts for personal and professional services that are awarded or executed by any state agency, including, but not limited to, the Department of Information Technology Services and the Department of Transportation, shall not be exempt from the Mississippi Public Records Act of 1983.

Current official text: Mississippi Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Mississippi statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.