New Mexico In Depth (https://nmindepth.com/)
New Mexico's Human Services Department is justified in keeping secret a controversial audit of 15 behavioral health-care providers, a state district judge in Las Cruces ruled Thursday afternoon.
When it cited executive privilege in refusing to disclose emails requested by New Mexico In Depth last month, the state's Human Services Department violated an executive order Gov. Susana Martinez signed the day she took office.
On Friday, the state announced it was freeing up $2.8 million in funding for flood relief efforts for Santa Clara Pueblo. But almost $12.5 million still remains unspent from the 2011 and 2012 federal flood declarations.
COMMENTARY: The state's leading transparency group considered giving the governor and attorney general its top award even as it prepared to sue them for keeping an audit secret. That's ludicrous, and it's indicative of changes the organization needs to make.