Any record expressly exempt from the Public Records Act or any record specifically declared to be exempt, confidential, or privileged by any other Mississippi statute, constitutional provision, or judicial order or directive, shall not be subject to inspection and copying. Those records which are specifically exempt by law and which fall within the jurisdiction of the DBCF include, but are not limited to, the following:
* Any reports of examinations or investigations, including all information obtained during the course of such examinations and investigations, conducted pursuant to any statutory authority of the DBCF (Miss. Code Ann. §§ 81-1-89(1), 81-18-21(8), and 25-61-11);
* Investigative records (Miss.Code Ann. § 25-61-12(2));
* Personnel records and applications for employment, except those which may be released to the person who made the application or with the prior written consent of the person who made the application. (Miss. Code Ann. § 25-1-100(1));
* Test questions and answers which are to be used in employment examinations (Miss. Code Ann. § (25-1-100(2));
* Letters of recommendation respecting any application for employment (Miss.Code Ann. § (25-1-100(3));
* Records which represent and constitute the work product of any attorney and which are related to litigation initiated by or against the DBCF or in anticipation of prospective litigation, including all communications between such attorney made in the course of an attorney/client relationship (Miss. Code Ann. § (25-1-102));
* All communications made in the course of an attorney-client relationship (Miss.CodeAnn. §§ 25-1-102; 26-61-11; AG Opinion No. 2004-0170);
* Appraisal information which concerns the sale or purchase of real or personal property for public purposes prior to public announcement of the purchase or sale, where the release of such records would have a detrimental effect on such sale or purchase (Miss. Code Ann. § (31-1-27);
* Any constitutional law, state or federal statutory law, or decision of a court of this state or the United States that declares a public record to be confidential or privileged, or provides that a public record shall be exempt from the Mississippi Public Records Act (Miss. Code Ann.§ (25-61-11).
5 Miss. Code. R. 4-4-4.7