When it comes to releasing public emails and other internal communications, the governor’s office isn’t the only place that likes to play secrecy games.
In fact, for more than 30 years, state law has shielded the S.C. General Assembly from releasing documents showing what it does behind the scenes.
The Nerve got a first taste of the special exemption in early November 2009 when it sent open-records requests to state legislative leaders asking them for all written communications, including emails and text messages, on an incentives bill to bring a Boeing aircraft assembly plant to North Charleston.
The legislation unanimously passed both chambers less than two weeks earlier in a rare, special session – with little public discussion.
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