Those Cemeteries which have been officially certified by the Board of Trustees shall be

Those Cemeteries which have been officially certified by the Board of Trustees shall be inventoried by local persons or groups requesting the certificate, and the inventory shall be deposited with the Department of Archives and History. This procedure will not be necessary if the Department already has the records for that particular cemetery in its collections. Source: Miss. Code §§ 25-59-1, 39-7-1 (1972, as amended). Part 3 Chapter 7: Policy on Access to Archaeological Site Records (Adopted by the Board of Trustees on January 17, 1986; Amended October 16, 2009) Introduction. Because of the Department’s 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 state’s Open Records Law.