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STATE POLICE v. NAACP

No. 41, September Term, 2010.

59 A.3d 1037 (2013)

430 Md. 179

MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF STATE POLICE v. MARYLAND STATE CONFERENCE OF NAACP BRANCHES.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

January 24, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven M. Sullivan, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Douglas F. Gansler, Atty. Gen. of Maryland, Baltimore, MD), on brief, for petitioner.

Seth A. Rosenthal (Brian L. Schwalb of Venable LLP, Washington, DC; Deborah A. Jeon of the ACLU Foundation of Maryland, Baltimore, MD), on brief, for petitioner.

Byron L. Warnken, James M. Nichols, Warnken, LLC, Towson, MD, for amicus curiae brief of the Maryland Trooper's Association on Behalf of Petitioner.

David S. Wachen, Shulman Rogers Gandal Pordy & Ecker, P.A., Potomac, MD, for amici curiae brief of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and Thirteen News Media Organizations in Support of Respondent.

John Payton, Director-Counsel, Debo P. Adegbile, Associate Director-Counsel, Christina A. Swarns, Johanna B. Steinberg, Jin Hee Lee, Vincent M. Southerland, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., New York, New York, Joshua I. Civin, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., Washington, DC, for amicus curiae NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. in Support of Respondent-Appellee.

Argued before BELL, C.J., HARRELL, BATTAGLIA, GREENE, MURPHY, BARBERA, JOHN C. ELDRIDGE (Retired, Specially Assigned) JJ.

JOHN C. ELDRIDGE (Retired, Specially Assigned) J.

The Maryland Public Information Act provides that "[a]ll persons are entitled to have access to information about the affairs of government and the official acts of public officials and employees." Maryland Code (1984, 2009 Repl.Vol., 2012 Supp.), § 10-612(a) of the State Government Article. While the Public Information Act makes access to government information generally available to the public, it also shields...

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