Article examines legislators’ personal e-mail use

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The Santa Fe Reporter is out with a new article that examines the debate over whether e-mails sent to and from state legislators’ personal e-mail accounts that discuss public business are public record.

The article quotes state Rep. Eleanor Chavez, D-Albuquerque, as saying legislators are in a different category than the governor, who has been under fire because she and other members of her administration were using personal e-mail accounts to discuss public business.

“We’re a citizen legislature, not state employees,” the Reporter quoted Chavez as saying.

I’m quoted in the article disagreeing with Chavez.

“They get per deim, they get retirement benefits — they get compensation for their job. And I don’t think that’s the point,” I was quoted as saying. “They’re public officials.”

You can read the full article here. And you can read my argument that legislators should use public e-mail accounts here.

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