ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The New Mexico Foundation for Open Government says it took anywhere from two days to several weeks for many government offices to respond to public records requests and more than a dozen failed to respond at all.
The open government advocacy group released the findings of its audit Tuesday.
The group — through a private citizen — filed requests under the Inspection of Public Records Act to gauge the responsiveness, attitudes and practices of more than 120 state agencies and boards and the state's 33 counties.
They asked for logs of all the record requests that had been submitted to the offices between 2014 and 2016.
Not all agencies, including the governor's office, keep such logs.
The state Sentencing Commission and the Martin Luther King Jr. Commission were among the agencies that failed to respond.