Media Law

Freedom of Information

March 30, 2011 Article

Open Government Compendium: Maine

Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press

Sigmund D. Schutz, authored Open Government Compendium: Maine, for the Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press, 5th ed. 2006, 6th ed. 2011.

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