{"id":4433,"date":"2009-04-03T14:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T20:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/04\/guv-signs-e-mail-records-request-bill\/"},"modified":"2009-04-03T14:07:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T20:07:00","slug":"guv-signs-e-mail-records-request-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/04\/guv-signs-e-mail-records-request-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Guv signs e-mail records request bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SdZsmuNDwpI\/AAAAAAAALVg\/YgD1W1OTSH4\/s1600-h\/2009Legislature.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 100px; height: 150px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SdZsmuNDwpI\/AAAAAAAALVg\/YgD1W1OTSH4\/s200\/2009Legislature.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320559422278451858\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The governor signed into law today a bill that requires government agencies in New Mexico to accept requests for public records via e-mail and fax.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/_session.aspx?Chamber=H&amp;LegType=B&amp;LegNo=598&amp;year=09\" target=\"_blank\">House Bill 598<\/a>, sponsored by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=HCERV\" target=\"_blank\">Joseph Cervantes<\/a>, D-Las Cruces, will take effect in mid-June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Cervantes\u2019 bill came in response to New Mexico State University\u2019s assertion in 2007 that records requests I filed weren\u2019t valid <a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/is-nmsu-violating-government.html\">because they were sent via e-mail<\/a>. The attorney general considered the issue and said that, though his office and the vast majority of state agencies treat e-mail requests as valid, state law doesn\u2019t <a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/nmsu-gets-away-for-now-with.html\">explicitly require that they be treated as valid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Currently, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmag.gov\/pdf\/AGO%20IPRA%20Guide.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">New Mexico Inspection of Public Records Act<\/a> requires response to \u201coral\u201d and \u201cwritten\u201d requests for public records, but there\u2019s no clear definition of what constitutes writing. Denying a request because it was sent electronically, and forcing someone to instead deliver the request in person or mail it, is one method some government agencies, including NMSU, have used to make it more difficult to access public records.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Cervantes\u2019 bill clarifies that writing includes e-mail, fax and other electronic formats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The governor signed into law today a bill that requires government agencies in New Mexico to accept requests for public records via e-mail and fax. House Bill 598, sponsored by Joseph Cervantes, D-Las Cruces, will take effect in mid-June. Cervantes\u2019 bill came in response to New Mexico State University\u2019s assertion in 2007 that records requests [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}