Attorney general weighs in on public records case

The attorney general is not defending a lower court ruling that held the private email and text message accounts of state officials are beyond the reach of public records law.
In a brief filed this week to the Vermont Supreme Court, where an appeal is being heard, Attorney General TJ Donovan’s office states, “To be clear the (attorney general’s office) is not suggesting that a state official may evade the Public Records Act by shifting his or her communication to a non-state em