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Posted by: Amelia Ferrell Knisely on Feb 17, 2016

The state Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee yesterday approved $264,000 requested by Tennessee Comptroller Justin Wilson for hiring additional employees to clear the backlog of open records requests. Last month, Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey said the number of pending requests is around 1,000. “I think this office provides a great form of transparency for our state government,” Sen. Bill Ketron, R-Murfreesboro, said. Read more from The Tennessean