DECISION BLOCKS ACCESS TO E-MAIL MESSAGES CALLED EXEMPT FROM DISCLOSURE TO MEDIA

December 15, 2000

The state Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that e-mail generated by a former secretary for the Spokane County Prosecutor's Office are exempt from disclosure to the media because they are personal information. Thursday's decision reversed a Superior Court decision last year that would have permitted the messages to be released. Gina Tiberino, 34, joined the county's sexual assault prosecution team in August 1998, working as a legal secretary. Two months

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