New Mexico lawmakers rarely use work email

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – A records request by The Associated Press finds that New Mexico legislative leaders rarely if ever communicate by work email and keep private details of breakfast and dinner appointments with industry and special interest groups.
The Legislature’s top leaders provided their appointment calendars and hundreds of emails from the first week in February in response to the request.
Nearly all of the emails came from constituents; only three were outgoing messages. A