Attorney general tightens grip on records

From Sunshine Review

October 26, 2008

[edit] Attorney general tightens grip on records

Alaska Attorney General Talis Colberg is clamping down on how the state shares information with the public.

He's ordered state commissioners to get the approval of his agency, the Department of Law, before answering public records requests.

In a Sept. 26 letter from Colberg to various state commissioners, which was obtained Friday by the Empire, Colberg wrote that the large number of requests necessitated his office's intervention to make sure that any of the governor's privileges to withhold documents weren't being mistakenly waved."

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