OXFORD, Miss. — As was first reported by Dan Wolken of the USA Today newspaper, area man Hugh Freeze reportedly used his telephone to make telephone calls. Wolken, who obtained transcriptions of records from Freeze’s telephone using a little known legal/journalistic maneuver known as “requesting records through the Freedom of Information Act” –- or more colloquially “Freedoming” –- asserted that Freeze utilized his telephone for the express purpose of communicating with people who were not in his physical vicinity.
Freeze has been embroiled in an ongoing telephonic scandal, dating back to this summer’s famed Houston Dale Nutt v.