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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Media organizations from across North Carolina sued Gov. Mike Easley on Monday, accusing his administration of violating the state's public records law through the "systematic deletion, destruction or concealment" of e-mail messages.
The complaint filed in Wake County Superior Court asks a judge to declare that Easley violated the law because his staff told Cabinet agency employees to delete or destroy e-mails sent to and from the governor's office.
Easley also violated the law personally last month when he threw away a handwritten note from former state Health and Human Services Secretary Carmen Hooker Odom, the lawsuit said.
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