Letter to The Editor: ACC Sued for Public Records

Information & Perspective by Warren Woodward
(February 20, 2016)

I made a Public Records Request of the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) back in December of 2014. The following January, when the ACC sent me the documents I asked for, I caught them making all kinds of bogus redactions to the documents, including even inventing a new redaction classification called “state of mind” whereby entire pages were blacked out.

I also caught the ACC not giving me all the documents they should have by law. They actually hid documents from me. I found this out because at the same time I made a Public Records Request of the ACC, I also made one of the Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS). I got emails from the ADHS that I should have also gotten from the ACC but never did. The Directors of the two agencies had exchanged emails, so what I got from the ADHS I should have also gotten from the ACC, but I didn’t. Read More→