On Feb. 7, mathematics education professor Michele Carney filed a public records request with Boise State University — seeking emails, meeting notes and a variety of investigative documents.
By April 30, she had lost patience with her employer. She said Boise State was blowing past legal deadlines and blowing off her emails. She asserted a right to records directly pertaining to her — and said Boise State wrongfully withheld them, citing a legal exemption covering personnel records.
So Carney took Boise State to court.
Boise State denied wrongdoing. The university’s lawyer accused Carney of fishing for fodder for “a potential lawsuit against BSU.” The university ultimately turned over 1,289 pages of documents — months after a deadline that is spelled out in state law…