Mississippi Administrative Code
Title 16 - History, Humanities and Arts
Part 3 - Historic Preservation Division
Chapter 7 - Policy on Access to Archaeological Site Records

Introduction. Because of the Departments responsibility to protect and preserve archaeological resources, it is necessary to restrict access to locational information regarding most archaeological sites.

Unfortunately, earlier reports which were made available to the general public often gave detailed instructions and/or maps on how to find specific sites. Because of an increase in vandalism, grave robbing, and other forms of recreationally-oriented activity, it has been the policy of this Department in recent years to omit site locations from archaeological reports and to maintain a need-to-know policy on access to site locations. This policy has legal backing in an exclusion from the states Open Records Law.