EDITORIAL: You've got mail
From Sunshine Review
February 20, 2009
[edit] EDITORIAL: You've got mail
"District Judge Susan Johnson has ordered the Clark County School Board to turn over e-mails to a citizen watchdog who challenged its public records policy.
In an order distributed Tuesday, Judge Johnson ruled that e-mails created on public servers regarding public business fall within the state's definition of a public record. Judge Johnson ruled the burden was on the school district to prove that individual e-mails are not public records before denying them to activist Karen Gray.
Ms. Gray filed her lawsuit in June 2007, seeking copies of board members' e-mails from November 2005 to November 2006. Ms. Gray expressed concern that members might be violating the state's open meeting law by discussing School Board business in private, said Lee Rowland, an attorney with the ACLU of Nevada, which represented Ms. Gray.
Ms. Rowland praised the order Wednesday, saying the judge ruled "broadly in favor of public disclosure.""
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