Legal Opinion
Brown v. Minter
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided March 6, 1979No. 34397PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Undercofler, Presiding Justice.
James G. Minter, Jr., an editor of the Atlanta Journal acting in his capacity as a private citizen, sought to inspect certain records representing completed investigations by the Internal Investigation Unit of the Atlanta Police Department. The Department denied him permission to do so and he brought this action for mandamus in the Superior Court of Fulton County under the Georgia Open Records Act (Ga. L. 1959, p. 88, as amended), Code Ann. § 40-2701 et seq. After an evidentiary hearing, the trial court ordered the issuance of the mandamus. It found the records…
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