Live By The Code

By Kleinheider Posted on May 8, 2008 at 10:24 am

Matt Pulle does a bit of court and code sleuthing after the Bredesen administration seemed to balk a bit at handing over correspondence over the Bredesen Bunker issue to the Tennessee Center For Policy Research:

Interestingly, the governor’s stance on emails ignored the one-time counsel of the Tennessee Attorney General’s Office. Frank Gibson, executive director of the Tennessee Coalition for Open Government and a former editor at The Tennessean, says that an attorney at the AG’s office once warned state lawmakers not to put anything in an email they wouldn’t want to run on a billboard on West End Avenue. But now the Tennessee Attorney General’s Office is arguing for secrecy, citing an obscure 2005 case involving the—you guessed it—Giles Board of Education.

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Tags: Drew Johnson, GQ Drew, Tennessee Center For Policy Research, Trent Seibert  

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