Billings Gazette: Supreme court rules UW tape recording is public record
A surreptitious tape recording of a University of Wyoming committee meeting is a public record, the Wyoming Supreme Court has ruled.
Thursday’s ruling comes in response to a lawsuit by Corrine L. Sheaffer, a 27-year UW employee, who sued the university seeking a copy of the tape.
The university fired Sheaffer from her post as manager of UW’s Transportation and Parking Services after determining that she directed a subordinate to record a November 2003 meeting of UW’s Traffic Appeals Committee, a group of UW employees that hears appeals of campus parking tickets.
Sheaffer has denied directing anyone to make the tape. But both sides agree that once she got it, she turned it over to Rick Johnson, UW director of auxiliary services.
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