Attorney general asked to rule on access to judicial nominating letters

From Sunshine Review

July 18, 2008

[edit] Attorney general asked to rule on access to judicial nominating letters

"The Judicial Nominating Commission believes it should be allowed to keep the public from seeing letters advocating for or against candidates for state judgeships, Chairman Stephen J. Carlotti said in a letter this week.

And now the commission is asking Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch “to confirm that its interpretation of the Rhode Island Access to Public Records Act is correct.”"

[edit] External links

Providence Journal, Attorney general asked to rule on access to judicial nominating letters, July 18, 2008

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