Public records case before Nevada Supreme Court
By James DeHaven, Reno Gazette-Journal
What’s in a public record?
That’s one of several familiar questions raised Wednesday at the Nevada Supreme Court, where justices heard the latest arguments in a long-running legal battle over what information the state has to disclose about retired public employees.
At issue: A three-year-old public records request from the Nevada Policy Research Institute, a conservative think tank, seeking, among other things, the names of more than 57,000 people receiving payments from the state-run Public Employees’ Retirement System of Nevada, or PERS.