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Senate panel hears $36,318 reimbursement request for Private Investigator and Security Board tied to pipeline litigation
Summary
Sen. Jose Castaneda asked the Senate Industry and Business Committee to pass Senate Bill 22‑266, a one‑time $36,318 grant to reimburse the North Dakota Private Investigator and Security Board for litigation and records‑redaction costs tied to the Dakota Access Pipeline enforcement actions.
Sen. Jose Castaneda urged the Senate Industry and Business Committee to approve Senate Bill 22‑266, a one‑time grant of $36,318 from the State Disaster Relief fund to the North Dakota Private Investigator and Security Board to reimburse expenses the board incurred responding to litigation and subsequent open‑records requests tied to Dakota Access Pipeline protests.
The board’s executive director and legal staff told the committee the appropriation would cover legal fees and the unusually large staff time required to review and redact records produced during an administrative enforcement action. The request includes a detailed cost breakdown presented to the committee: legal fees of $29,726.87, staff redaction time totaling $6,006.25, a $5.25 filing fee to the Office of Administrative Hearings and $59.99 for an external storage drive, yielding the $36,318.11 total the bill seeks to appropriate.
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