The Rio Grande Sun, a weekly paper in Española (northern) New Mexico, was awarded an $11,000 grant from the Knight FOI Fund to press litigation against Northern New Mexico College for disregarding basic requirements of the open records law.
The grant was announced Friday by the National Freedom of Information Coalition.
Officials with the Missouri-based group say it’s the first grant awarded for a New Mexico case since the fund was established and the money will be used to defray the cost of the suit brought against the college and its Regents.
Posted by Betsy Model, President