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Via LVRJ
Carson District Judge James Wilson on Thursday ordered the Nevada Division of Insurance to turn over some records sought by media organizations about who applied to work as state Obamacare insurance navigators.
Those records include applications from about 250 individuals who sought jobs through the Insurance Division for insurance navigator jobs and had their names forwarded to the separately operating Silver State Health Insurance Exchange.
Wilson, who will formalize a written order in the next few days, said records obtained by the agency from the national criminal history database as part of that review process are confidential and need not be disclosed by the agency.
But any other records the division wants kept confidential must be submitted to the court summarized in the form of a log, which then could potentially be sought by the media groups as well.
Wilson also awarded attorney fees and costs to the media organizations, saying that the penalties are needed to ensure that public agencies comply with the full intent of the state’s public records law.
The National Review sued the agency to obtain records of nearly a dozen Silver State Health Insurance Exchange program navigators who might have criminal histories. The Las Vegas Review-Journal joined the lawsuit.
In a 2½-hour hearing, Wilson said he did not believe that the Insurance Division complied fully with Nevada’s public records law when it refused to turn over any documents sought by the bi-monthly magazine.
“I just have the impression of hiding the ball,” Wilson said at one point in the hearing about why the division turned over no information and failed to provide an avenue for at least some records to be released.
Attorney Donald Campbell, representing the media groups, said: “This is not just hiding the ball. They are not even telling you if they have a ball to hide.”
Senior Deputy Attorney General Joanna Grigoriev said the agency might seek a stay of Wilson’s order while a decision is made whether to appeal his ruling to the Nevada Supreme Court. Unless a stay is granted, the information will have to be released within the next several days.
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