Posts Tagged ‘government’
The Line: PRC Drops Suit Against Santa Fe Newspaper
August 14, 2015 – At the beginning of this week, the Santa Fe New Mexican was facing a lawsuit from the state Public Regulation Commission over documents that were accidentally released to reporter Steve Terrell. The PRC later voted to drop the lawsuit and the paper published documents related coal contracts for the San Juan…
Read MoreLegislature 2015: Whistleblower Protection
By: Gwyneth Doland New Mexico’s Whistleblower Protection Act went into effect in 2010 and since then the state says it has had to spend a lot more money dealing with lawsuits allowed by the law. A bill sponsored by Rep. Larry Larrañaga, R-Albuquerque, (HB 532) would address that by making it harder to make a whistleblower claim. Under…
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