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Supreme Court Should Stop Georgia From Charging Citizens $404 Per Year To Read Their Own Laws

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In most states, a quick Google search will lead a researcher to a wealth of information about his state laws, posted by none other than the government itself. This is how it should be — conducting research about state laws should be simple in terms of accessibility.

But this isn’t the case for residents in Georgia. Georgia’s state government has erected a barrier between its people and the information about the laws that govern them by contracting the exclusive publishing rights of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated (OCGA) with a private company, LexisNexis Group, which charges hefty fees for users to view its content.

 

 

https://thefederalist.com/2019/11/06/supreme-court-should-stop-georgia-from-charging-citizens-404-per-year-to-read-their-own-laws/

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