“The deliberative process is being invoked by the clients with respect to the various drafts and any communication involving those drafts.”
—LSU attorney Lloyd Lunsford, parroting the Jindal party line in defending the denial of access to public records by invoking deliberative process.
“LSU administrators asserted the deliberative process privilege based upon my recommendation after independent research.”
—LSU attorney Shelby McKenzie, on denying media access to public records based on deliberative process.
“As executive counsel, I have discussions about the law with LSU’s legal counsel and other agencies. At the end of the day, it’s the agency’s decision to determine how they respond.”
—Elizabeth Murrill, Gov. Piyush Jindal’s executive counsel, attempting to claim that the administration does not have a hand in day to day operations of LSU. (Murrill, however, demanded to review LSU documents requested by LouisianaVoice before their release.)
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Deliberative Process is a scapel, not a broad ax.
In the upcoming suit involving the denial of access to public records, I would hope that the plaintiff attorney(s) would subponea every person and their counsel that has asserted that defense in not turning over records requested under the Public Records statute. Then, when the judge rules in favor of the plaintiff, those officials not a party to the suit but called to testify will clearly know that they had best comply or they too will be brought into an unfriendly court to answer why.
I hope Elizabeth Murrill, Lloyd Lunsford, Shelby McKenzie and our timid Attorney General will lead the list. .
Poor Liz. Demoted from his lordships castle to the outer kingdom of the Division for the misstep of using email instead of a telephone.