New Mexico
AG’s office ordered to pay up after not handing over public records
NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – The state lawyer basic’s workplace has been ordered to pay up for failing handy over public data. Final yr, Albuquerque’s former police chief Mike Geier submitted the request to the AG’s workplace for any stories and communications concerning himself. This was a number of months after Geier was fired from the division following a fraud investigation into his chief of employees and friction with the mayor’s workplace.
The AG’s workplace instructed him there have been no related paperwork about Geier. Nonetheless, a choose dominated there have been and that the AG’s workplace broke the regulation by not handing them over. The court docket ordered the AG’s workplace and its report custodian to pay Geier greater than $40,000.