Governmental Affairs delegation to meet with Tuck, Hood
A delegation from the MPA’s Governmental Affairs Committee will meet separately October 12 in Jackson with Lt. Governor Amy Tuck and Attorney General Jim Hood.
The MPA group is seeking to get support from the elected officials for making adoption of a uniform law enforcement incident report a priority in the next legislative session. Tuck learned about MPA members’ desire to push the issue during a luncheon with members of the Legislative Budget Committee last month in Jackson.
Governmental Affairs committee members expected to attend include chairman Lloyd Gray of the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal in Tupelo, MPA/MPS president Marcus Bowers of the Rankin County News, Prince Newspaper Holdings Inc. president Jim Prince, Prentiss Headlight general manager Patsy Speights and MPA/MPS executive director Carolyn Wilson.
Clarion-Ledger Perspective Editor Sid Salter, who made MPA’s case for the incident reports during the Sept. 21 meeting, recently wrote a column on the subject, as did fellow committee member Mark Thornton, editor and publisher of The Star-Herald in Kosciusko.