city, seeking various public records, including the credit card
statements of city employees and the e-mails of the city recovery
chief and the head of the city library
system.
Civil District Court. The newspaper says the city has not fulfilled
three separate records requests filed between May and
December.
separate lawsuit that seeks to block the release of New Orleans
Police Department records of internal investigations into police
officers, including those involved in a fatal New Year’s Eve
shooting.
organizations to answer requests within three days and, if a
request is denied, to provide a legal reason for keeping the
documents from public view.
Nagin as a defendant, the newspaper acknowledges the city responded
to the requests, saying its attorneys need to review the e-mails
for legally privileged information. But, it says, the
administration provided no timeline for that
review.
records related to employees’ use of credit cards, but did not
provide eight months of statements from 2006.
newspaper contends that Civil District Judge Robin Giarrusso erred
in granting a temporary restraining order to the Fraternal Order of
Police, the Police Association of New Orleans and the Black
Organization of Police.
records request by the Times-Picayune. Giarrusso’s order prohibits
the release of any record involving a current or former police
officer.
Police Department conceded that the records were legally public and
promised to deliver them to the newspaper by March
13.
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