Lost amid the 24-hour-news-cycle roar of the impeachment process and perhaps overlooked by those deep in holiday preparation mode, a historic criminal case was heard in Georgia earlier this month that deserves special notice. On Dec. 19, a Fulton County jury found a former employee of the city of Atlanta criminally guilty of violating the state’s open records law for her attempt to interfere with news media requests for city of Atlanta water billing records in 2017.