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Lt. Gov. Diane Denish has released 60 pages of documents related to her schedule. The records tell us about the public events in which Denish took part but nothing about time Denish spent in her official capacity meeting with constituents or doing things other than appearing at public events. Continue Reading
Though Gov. Bill Richardson’s office hasn’t released any useful documents related to the identities of the 59 exempt employees he had laid off in January, the New Mexico Foundation for Open Government is slowly putting together the pieces of what happened. Continue Reading
U.S. Rep. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., is touting today the fact that he’s a cosponsor of major transparency legislation. Watch him talk about it here. Continue Reading
U.S. Reps. Harry Teague and Ben Ray Luján, D-N.M., are among the 29 House members who have joined a new caucus aimed at increasing transparency and accountability in Washington. Continue Reading
Unlike two other candidates running for governor, state Rep. Janice Arnold-Jones, R-Albuquerque, has released her schedule of government-related appointments and events in response to a records request. Continue Reading
Months after filing its request for financial records with District Attorney Susana Martinez’s office, the Democratic Party is still working to obtain all documents that exist. The stumbling blocks: The office didn’t initially provide everything it has, but it’s working to remedy that. And it didn’t forward the request to the state finance department – which a sunshine group says it was required to do. Continue Reading
Lt. Gov. Diane Denish’s office now says it doesn’t maintain any sort of calendar or schedule of Denish’s appointments but may be able to provide NMPolitics.net with other documents that indicate some of what she’s been doing. The office won’t say who, if anyone, is maintaining Denish’s calendar. Continue Reading
The office of Lt. Gov. Diane Denish says the public doesn’t have any business knowing about Denish’s job-related appointments, except for public appearances. Denish’s office isn’t releasing information about her schedule except to point to news releases that announce public events. Continue Reading
The New Mexico Environment Department has paid Helena Chemical Co. $23,500 to settle violations of the state’s Inspection of Public Records Act, Helena announced today. The company plans to donate the money. Continue Reading
The Third Judicial District Attorney’s Office isn’t keeping a schedule for District Attorney Susana Martinez, who’s been busy in recent months running for governor. Martinez isn’t saying how she’s keeping track of job-related appointments. Sunshine experts disagree on whether, if she keeps them on a personal calendar, it’s a public record. Continue Reading
The district attorney says police were justified in fatally shooting a Las Cruces man in January, but officials won’t release the report that led to that conclusion. The ‘Trust us, we’re the government’ argument isn’t good enough, especially when the government takes a life. Continue Reading
District Attorney Susana Martinez’s office has turned over, free of charge, thousands of pages of public records to the state Democratic Party, but the party says it’s still waiting for a few dozen pages of documents. Continue Reading
UPDATED: A sunshine group says a state agency violated the Inspection of Public Records Act when it redacted information from public documents before giving them to Republican gubernatorial candidate Allen Weh. Now it appears the Department of Finance and Administration is in the process of correcting that violation. Continue Reading
The governor says he has no records about the layoffs of 59 exempt employees and doesn’t know which state agency does. The attorney general correctly says that’s “implausible” and “unlikely.” As his time in office comes to a close, is such disregard for the law the legacy Bill Richardson wants to leave? Continue Reading
The New Mexico Foundation for Open Government shares Republican gubernatorial candidate Allen Weh’s concern that a state agency is going overboard in redacting public records before providing copies to Weh. Continue Reading