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So these are government employees, acting in the context of their duties ...as government employees, but records pertaining to their actions, expenditures, etc.

So these are government employees, acting in the context of their duties ...as government employees, but records pertaining to their actions, expenditures, etc. are not required because the 501(c)3 owns... what exactly? Either you're kicking in the door and killing an elderly man in a poorly executed search for 0.2g of marijuana and a man in the backyard as a law enforcement officer, in which case you should be bound by the same requirements every tax-funded police department is, or you're doing it as an employee of a tax-exempt corporation, in which case you should go to jail for B&E, Homicide, possession of an automatic weapon, possession of marijuana, etc.

jmccree 12y ago
I believe their argument is the LECs are private non-profit corporations that merely provide coordination and equipment to law enforcement agencies. The police officers are never working for the LEC, and I'm sure any police-only equipment is only ever 'in possession' by member departments. The LEC is basically a more formalized mutual aid agreement among multiple agencies. I would assume you could query each individual agency as to how often their officers participate in swat operations, but without knowing how often the LEC was called, I don't see how you could get an accurate count of the total raids. Perhaps each jurisdiction would have to report how often they called the LEC into their jurisdiction. They may be actually be legally right due to basically a technicality. Perfect for time for the state legislature to reign in the LECs and make open records apply to mutual aid agencies/agreements. I'm sure their representatives are jumping on that right now...