AG KING OWES NEW MEXICANS AN EXPLANATION, FAIR TREATMENT FOR ALL UNDER LAW

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 14, 2013
Contact: Jamie Dickerman
jdickerman@gopnm.org (mailto:jdickerman@gopnm.org)
Phone: 505-298-3662


AG KING OWES NEW MEXICANS AN EXPLANATION, FAIR TREATMENT FOR ALL UNDER LAW
ALBUQUERQUE - In June 2012, the Republican Party of New Mexico filed a public records request for Attorney General Gary King’s emails from his private email addresses, for all documents concerning public business. AG King has repeatedly criticized Governor Martinez’ administration for certain claimed public records practices, but his office used a much different standard when they reviewed AG King’s own emails.
The Attorney General’s Office provided RPNM with a partial disclosure and redacted copy of private emails. However, during a May 17^th KNME IN FOCUS interview, Attorney General King stood behind his release of private and personal emails from Governor Susana Martinez’s private email address. (See the interview here: portal.knme.org/video/2365013770). In the interview, he denies that there was political motivation for releasing Governor Martinez’s emails and instead claims that if an elected official uses private email for any public business, all emails on the account become public record.
Following that interview, RPNM followed up with the AG’s Office to call out the inconsistencies in his interpretation of the law and again request that he release his emails (See the full email here (www.dropbox.com/s/07kq7z5fiikx726/05%2029%2013%20R...pdf?m) ). The Attorney General’s Office has since responded that those emails are not public record.
RPNM is now calling on Attorney General King to once and for all, treat all individuals the same under the law, without political purposes.
In today’s letter, RPNM Chairman John Billingsley wrote:

"Attorney General King has maintained the Governor’s private emails had to be publicly disclosed, yet he has decided to withhold his own on grounds that they are 'private.' This is completely inconsistent…
"As you must be aware, during that interview (with KNME) Attorney General King denied that his release of Governor Martinez’s emails was politically motivated, claiming instead that if any email concerned public business in any private email, all of the emails on the private account would be considered public records. This appears to be a blatant double standard…”
See the full letter and attachments mentioned in the letter here: www.dropbox.com/sh/hhcl8bumt6g0ygz/Yu0fZurWSy ###

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