From The Gazette (Colorado Springs): Mayor Steve Bach directed the city attorney to stop labeling Colorado Springs Utilities emails, memos and documents as “attorney/client privileged” – an apparent effort by Utilities to dodge releasing information about a fire at the Martin Drake Power Plant.
Bach said Tuesday that he was unaware of a May 13 email exchange between a senior city attorney and a Colorado Springs Utilities plant supervisor that advised the supervisor to label internal documents about the Drake fire as “attorney/client privileged.” A source inside Utilities said the intent was to circumvent the Colorado Open Records Act.
Bach said he learned of the directive after reading a June 14 article in The Gazette.
“It was very disturbing to me,” he said.
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