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Assessor asks for records tied to litigation; commissioners discuss paying outside redaction costs
Summary
Kootenai County Assessor Veil Kovacs described a public records request related to recent litigation and asked the board to consider paying outside counsel to review and redact records; commissioners discussed precedent and transparency and an estimate of about $500 was cited for the redaction work.
Kootenai County Assessor Veil Kovacs told commissioners on April 1 that a public-records request seeking documents tied to recent litigation involves legal-review and redaction work that will likely be performed by outside counsel under the county’s contract, and she urged the board to consider absorbing that expense in the interest of public transparency.
Kovacs said the request concerns legal expenses and records tied to “the total cost of the recent litigation” and that the redaction and review are being performed by the…
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