Legal Opinion
Unified Government v. Athens Newspapers, LLC.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided June 30, 2008No. S07G1133PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARLEY, Justice.
In 2005, Appellee Athens Newspapers, LLC submitted a request under the Open Records Act, OCGA § 50-18-70 et seq., to Appellant Unified Government of Athens-Clarke County, seeking police department records relating to the investigation of the 1992 rape and murder of Jennifer Stone. Despite extensive investigation, no one has yet been arrested or identified as a suspect, and investigators have not identified any new evidence for several years. However, the *193police department has not closed the investigatory file, but has instead utilized certain procedures with the potential to…
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