The provisions of this chapter shall not be construed to conflict with, amend, repeal or supersede any constitutional law, state or federal statutory law, or decision of a court of this state or the United States which at the time this chapter is effective or thereafter specifically declares a public record to be confidential or privileged, or provides that a public record shall be exempt from the provisions of this chapter.
Miss. Code Ann. § 25-61-11
Records exempted or privileged by law
Known as the Mississippi Public Records Act
The act spans §§ 25-61-1–25-61-9 (15 sections).
Applied in 10 court decisions — leading case 47 So. 3d 148 - Buckel v. Chaney (2010)
Most recently applied in Mississippi Department of Audit v. Gulf Publishing Company, Inc. (November 2017)
Laws, 1983, ch. 424, § 6; Laws, 2015, ch. 484, § 4, eff from and after Jan. 1, 2016.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
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.