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Gay police chief didn’t follow town policy

By Jeffrey Collins

Jeffrey Collins, reporter, Columbia, South Carolina, for filing a FOIA to force the town of Latta to disclose why the state’s first female and openly gay sheriff had been suspended for five days. http://bit.ly/2bVpxEm

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http://www.scnow.com/news/national/wire/article_fb1124e4-b380-575c-9444-4545b75d2378.html

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SEPT. 9, 2016

Shiyu Wang

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