Journalists, free speech advocates raise concerns over state bill that would limit access to public records
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BATON ROUGE — Louisianans may soon lose access to great swaths of government records currently made available upon request under the state public records law.A Senate panel voted 6-2 Wednesday to advance a bill — backed by Gov. Jeff Landry and sponsored by Sen. Heather Cloud, R-Turkey Creek — that would gut public access to information at every level of government.The proposal, Senate Bill 482, would bar access to “any records reflecting advisory opinions,...

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