REPORTER FILES SUIT AGAINST GILMER OFFICIALS - Failure To Provide Public Information

(01/13/2012)

Reporter Files Suit To Compel Release Of Dispute Between Gilmer Clerk, Va. Bank By Chris Dickerson Kanawha Bureau WV Record wvrecord.com GLENVILLE - A freelance journalist is suing Gilmer County officials for failing to respond to his repeated requests for information about details in a lawsuit settlement involving a housing project with ties to Glenville State College. Gilmer County Clerk Jean Butcher and the Gilmer County Commission are named as co-defendants in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by Jay Lawrence Smith. In his complaint filed Dec. 23 in Gilmer Circuit Court, Smith, a regular contributor to The West Virginia Record, is asking a judge to compel release of details in the settlement reached late last year in a suit Winchester, Va.-based Summit Community Bank brought against the clerk's office alleging an improperly recorded lien caused them to be an unnecessary defendant in a breach of contract suit. Read the rest of the story   Reporter files suit to compel release of dispute between Gilmer Clerk, Va. bank

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