State Rep. Jill Chambers is looking to introduce legislation to overhaul the Open Records Act:

State Rep. Jill Chambers, R-Atlanta, said last week she plans to introduce legislation to rewrite the entire Open Records Act, O.C.G.A § 50-18-70, to make it easier to understand, impose felony penalties on violators and possibly eliminate some exemptions. Sen. Chip Rogers, R-Woodstock, will carry the bill in the state Senate, Chambers said.

Chambers said she wants to make “willfully and knowingly violating” the Open Records Act a felony subject to a fine of up to $5,000. Current penalties are typically a misdemeanor subject to a $100 fine and the option of filing a suit. She also said she wants the law to retain its exceptions for Social Security numbers and credit card information.
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Chambers cited several reasons for her effort to rewrite the law. The primary reason is that she believes the law is confusingly written and that many violations of the law are a result of misunderstanding it.

“Just trying to read it and understand it would be a major accomplishment,” she said. “It’s so hard to find what you need in the law, and then once you do find it, it’s so hard to understand.

“There will always be people who flagrantly violate the Open Records Act. But there are also people who violate it because they don’t understand it.”

And...I'd like to add that Rep. Chambers is one of my heroes at the capitol.