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State Government State Printing And Documents: Exempt Certain Personal Information From Public Disclosure, Mark Biernath Mar 2000

State Government State Printing And Documents: Exempt Certain Personal Information From Public Disclosure, Mark Biernath

Georgia State University Law Review

The Act exempts from public disclosure certain information obtained by counties or municipalities in conjunction with burglar, fire, or other electronic security systems. The Act further exempts certain educational testing materials from public disclosure.


Towards A Defensible Free Exercise Doctrine, Frederick Mark Gedicks Jan 2000

Towards A Defensible Free Exercise Doctrine, Frederick Mark Gedicks

Faculty Scholarship

Almost from the moment that the Supreme Court abandoned the religious exemption doctrine in Employment Division v. Smith, its defenders have worked to bring it back. More than a decade later, however, Smith remains well-entrenched; not only has the Court confirmed Smith's basic holding, but it also struck the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Congress's first effort to restore the exemption doctrine, at least as it applied to the states.

Proponents of religious exemptions cannot ignore the hard truth that they can no longer be defended. During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American society viewed the practice of religion-mostly Christian …