Detroit mayor tries to exempt text messages from public-records law - On Deadline - USATODAY.com
Yeah - lets make it non-disclosable AFTER you screwed up!
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has issued a new directive that seeks to protect information from "telephones, text messaging devices and pagers" from public disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act. But the Free Press says city officials and legal observers don't think the new policy will stand up in court.
"It's meaningless, except that it shows the monumental hubris that's at work here," says Herschel Fink, an attorney for the Free Press, a fellow Gannett newspaper.
Kilpatrick was charged with a range of criminal violations after the Free Press published excerpts from sexually-charged text messages that the Democrat sent to a top aide via his city-owned phone.
Friday, May 16, 2008
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