New Mexico, USA

Albuquerque, NM: (Feb-10-07) The New Mexico State Police were charged with a lawsuit by The New Mexican, Rio Grande Sun, Albuquerque Journal, and Albuquerque Tribune over the agency's refusal to release documents. The litigation began when the state Department of Public Safety, the cabinet agency that oversees state police, refused to release information about a pair of 2004 fatal shootings, one involving an Albuquerque fire-fighter and the other a state police officer in a drug investigation. The newspapers asked for documents under the state's Inspection of Public Records Act, but were refused. Under the settlement, the law enforcement agency does not admit to wrongdoing though it has agreed to pay $125,000 to cover most of the plaintiffs' legal costs. [FREE NEW MEXICAN: PUBLIC RECORDS ACT]

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