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Longtime APS board president, local attorney, Leonard DeLayo dies


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Leonard DeLayo at Smith Brasher Hall at CNM in Albuquerque on Feb. 20, 2007, when DeLayo was preparing for his last school board meeting after serving on the board for more then 20 years. Delayo died Friday at the age of 71. (Sam Adams/Albuquerque Journal)
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Leonard Joseph DeLayo Jr., an Albuquerque attorney who was “the voice of reason” for 20 years on the Albuquerque Public Schools Board of Education, including five terms as board president, died in a local hospital Friday evening. He was 71.
On Monday, friends remembered him as a man of great intelligence, humor and patience, a great listener, and a dedicated public servant and family man. ....

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Insurance is covering some public records violations


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Local and state government agencies paid more than $1.2 million in penalties and legal fees in 2019 for failing to follow the state’s Inspection of Public Records Act, according to the New Mexico Foundation for Open Government.
But some of those legal fees and some of the penalties didn’t come out of the local government or state agency budgets. Instead, they were covered by insurance – something that has open government advocates concerned.
“By covering the costs for withholding documents, insurance gives those entities no incentive to comply with the law,” Santa Fe attorney Daniel Yohalem said in an interview. “They are withholding too many records because they figure the cost is free.” ....

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Insurance is covering some New Mexico public records violations


Insurance is covering some New Mexico public records violations
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ALBUQUERQUE - Local and state government agencies paid more than $1.2 million in penalties and legal fees in 2019 for failing to follow the state s Inspection of Public Records Act, according to the New Mexico Foundation for Open Government.
But some of those legal fees and some of the penalties didn t come out of the local government or state agency budgets. Instead, they were covered by insurance something that has open government advocates concerned.
By covering the costs for withholding documents, insurance gives those entities no incentive to comply with the law,  Santa Fe attorney Daniel Yohalem said in an interview. They are withholding too many records because they figure the cost is free. ....

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