Louisiana Voice

Assistant Attorney General: “We will help with public meetings but we don’t involve ourselves with public records.”

LouisianaVoice: “You differentiate between public records and public meetings?”

Assistant AG: “Yes. We will help with public meetings but we don’t involve ourselves with public records.”

—Exchange between an assistant attorney general and LouisianaVoice over LouisianaVoice’s request for assistance in getting the Louisiana Department of Education to comply with the state’s public records laws. We eventually had to rely on our legal counsel to shake the records out of the Claiborne Building.