Judge issues order in Gibbons e-mail lawsuit
October 22, 2008: A district judge has ordered Gov. Jim Gibbons to answer a Reno newspaper’s lawsuit seeking his state e-mails for a six-month period.
District Judge William Maddox today directed Gibbons to either produce the records for the Reno Gazette-Journal or provide the reasons for the refusal. Gibbons has until Nov. 14 to reply to the suit filed in District Court in Carson City Tuesday. Maddox has set Nov. 26 for a hearing to address why he should not issue a writ to force the governor to release the records. Read the full article here.
Nevada governor sued
October 21, 2008: The Reno Gazette-Journal filed a public records lawsuit against Gov. Jim Gibbons on Tuesday, seeking a court order compelling Gibbons to release certain e-mail correspondence under Nevada's public records law.
The Carson City District Court lawsuit was filed after Gibbons' lawyer, Chris Nielsen, rejected a June 4 public records request from the newspaper for six months of e-mail from the governor's state account. Read the full article here.
ACLU Says CCSD Blocking Public Records
October 15, 2008: An attorney for a government watchdog group said the Clark County School District is making it cost-prohibitive to obtain public records.
American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada lawyer Lee Rowland called the district's demand that Karen Gray pay more than $4,000 for school trustee e-mail and cell phone records a de-facto ban on releasing the records.
A district lawyer called the fee reasonable for finding and providing a year's worth of records. Article here.
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