Title 25, Public Officers and Employees; Public Records

(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, any county or municipal official or employee who accepts documents for filing as public records shall, in addition to any other fee provided elsewhere by law, collect a fee of One Dollar ($1.00) for each document so filed.…

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Mississippi Public Records Act of 1983.” It is the policy of the Legislature that public records must be available for inspection by any person unless otherwise provided by Chapter 453, Laws of 1996. Furthermore, providing acce…

(1) Except as otherwise provided in Section 25-61-11.2, any public body that uses sensitive software, as defined in Section 25-61-9, or proprietary software must not thereby diminish the right of the public to inspect and copy a public record. A public body that uses sensitive so…

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 specifica…

The name, home address, any telephone number or other private information of any person who possesses a weapon permit issued under Section 45-9-101 or Section 97-37-7 shall be exempt from the Mississippi Public Records Act of 1983.

(a) The following information technology (IT) records shall be exempt from the Mississippi Public Records Act of 1983:(a) IT infrastructure details, including network architecture, schematics, and IT system designs;(b) Source code;(c) Detailed hardware and software inventories;(d…

Documents and records used by the Mississippi State Department of Health during morbidity or mortality review committee work mandated by statute or regulation, such as the Child Death Review Panel, the Maternal Mortality Review Committee, and the Fetal and Infant Mortality Review…

(1) The home address, any telephone number of a privately paid account or other private information of any law enforcement officer, criminal investigator, judge or district attorney or the spouse or child of the law enforcement officer, criminal investigator, judge or district at…

The Mississippi Ethics Commission shall have the authority to enforce the provisions of this chapter upon a complaint filed by any person denied the right granted under Section 25-61-5 to inspect or copy public records. Upon receiving a complaint, the commission shall forward a c…

Any person who shall deny to any person access to any public record which is not exempt from the provisions of this chapter or who charges an unreasonable fee for providing a public record may be liable civilly in his personal capacity in a sum not to exceed One Hundred Dollars (…

Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as denying the Legislature the right to determine the rules of its own proceedings and to regulate public access to its records. However, notwithstanding the provisions of this section, the Legislature shall be subject to the provisions …

Within sixty (60) days after the end of each regular session of the Legislature, each agency or department of the State of Mississippi shall include on the Internet website of the agency or department a separate section that provides a legislative update on any legislation enacte…

It is the policy of this state that public records shall be available for inspection by any person unless otherwise provided by this chapter; furthermore, providing access to public records is a duty of each public body and automation of public records must not erode the right of…

(a) The following words shall have the meanings ascribed herein unless the context clearly requires otherwise:(a) “Public body” shall mean any department, bureau, division, council, commission, committee, subcommittee, board, agency and any other entity of the state or a politica…

(1) (a) Except as otherwise provided by Sections 25-61-9, 25-61-11, 25-61-11.2 and 37-153-7, all public records are hereby declared to be public property, and any person shall have the right to inspect, copy or mechanically reproduce or obtain a reproduction of any public record …

(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, each public body may establish and collect fees reasonably calculated to reimburse it for, and in no case to exceed, the actual cost of searching, reviewing and/or duplicating and, if applicable, mailing copies of public r…

(1) (a) Records furnished to public bodies by third parties which contain trade secrets or confidential commercial or financial information shall not be subject to inspection, examination, copying or reproduction under this chapter until notice to third parties has been given, bu…

(a) As used in this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings as defined in this section unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:(a) “Personal information” means any list, record, register, registry, roll, roster or other compilation of data of any k…

(1) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, and subject to subsection (3), a public agency shall not do any of the following:(a) Require any entity organized under Section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code to provide the public agency with personal information.(b) If in the po…

(1) A person alleging a violation of this chapter may bring a civil action for appropriate injunctive relief. (2) A court, in rendering a judgment in an action brought under this section, shall award all or a portion of the costs of litigation, including reasonable attorney fees …

A person who knowingly violates this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment of not more than ninety (90) days or a fine of not more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) or both.

The requirements of this chapter shall not affect any provisions of the Mississippi Campaign Finance statutes provided in Section 23-15-801 et seq.

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Mississippi Internal Audit Act.”

(a) The university, community/junior college or agency internal audit director shall possess the following qualifications:(a) A bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university and five (5) years of progressively responsible professional auditing experience as an intern…

(a) The university, community/junior college or agency internal audit director shall:(a) Report directly to the university president or chancellor, community/junior college president or agency head or deputy university official, community/junior college official or agency head.(b…

Audits shall be conducted in accordance with the Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing published by The Institute of Internal Auditors, Inc., and, when required by law, regulation, agreement, contract or policy, in accordance with Government Auditing Standa…

(1) Audit reports shall be confidential but shall be provided on a quarterly basis to the governing board or commission of the university, the community/junior college or the state agency. State agencies without a governing board or commission shall have the quarterly report prov…

(1) At the conclusion of each audit, the internal audit director shall submit preliminary findings and recommendations to the person responsible for supervision of the program, activity, function or organizational unit being audited who shall respond in writing to any findings of…

(1) No later than six (6) months or less at the discretion of the university president or chancellor, the community/junior college president or state agency director after a financial, compliance, electronic data processing or performance audit is issued, the agency internal audi…

(1) The state or other external auditor, in connection with planning independent postaudits of the same agency, shall give appropriate consideration to internal audit reports and the resolution of findings therein. (2) Appropriate legislative committees may inquire into the reaso…

(1) The university, community/junior college or agency head shall make available to the internal audit director adequate resources specifically appropriated to ensure the professional development and continuing professional education of the internal audit staff. (2) The internal …

(a) The university president or chancellor, the community/junior college president or the agency director shall:(a) Review and approve the annual internal audit plan and budget, internal and external audit reports, follow-up reports and quality assurance reviews;(b) Periodically …

A State Interagency Internal Audit Forum may be established and composed of agency internal audit directors. The annual report may include a comparison of the annual audit plan for the year with the actual audit report issued and an explanation for any differences. The purpose of…

The purpose of this chapter is to establish a full-time program of internal auditing to assist in improving university, community/junior college and agency operations, to verify the existence of assets and to identify opportunities for cost savings and revenue enhancement. The un…

Within one hundred twenty (120) days after the end of each fiscal year, the university, community/junior college or agency internal audit director shall issue an annual report which separately lists audit reports issued, and other activities completed or in progress as of the end…

If, during the course of an audit, an auditor determines that criminal activity may be involved, then investigative records shall be confidential until the audit is complete and shall be provided to the university president or chancellor, the community/junior college president or…

(a) The following words and phrases shall have the meanings ascribed herein, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:(a) “University” means and includes Alcorn State University, Delta State University, Jackson State University, Mississippi State University, Mississippi Sta…

The provisions of this chapter shall only apply (a) to the following universities: (i) Alcorn State University, (ii) Delta State University, (iii) Jackson State University, (iv) Mississippi State University, (v) Mississippi State University Agriculture and Forestry Experiment Sta…

(1) Except as otherwise provided by subsection (2) of this section, each university, community/junior college and state agency shall, subject to specific appropriation of available funding, employ an agency internal audit director who shall be appointed by the university presiden…