Update on the RTK Requesting Legislative Emails for Members of the Belknap County Delegation

The RSA 91:A demand for the legislative emails for all members of Belknap County went out Sunday (two days ago), and I got the notification of their receipt from James Cianci, the NH House Legal Counsel, yesterday.

—— Original Message ——
From “James Cianci” <James.Cianci@leg.state.nh.us>
To “Skip@granitegrok.com” <Skip@granitegrok.com>
Date 3/20/2023 1:57:54 PM
Subject RE: Right To Know Demand for the Legislative emails of the NH House Representatives from Belknap County

Skip Murphy:

Your email has been forwarded for a response.  Please consider this email an acknowledgement of the receipt of the request.  Given the nature and scope of the request, it is estimated that it will take up to 30 days to evaluate the request and determine whether any records are responsive to the request.  Should a response be available before the end of the 30-day period, it will be made accordingly.

Sincerely,

James Cianci
___________________________

James S. Cianci, Esq.
House Legal Counsel
New Hampshire House of Representatives
Legislative Office Building Room 400
33 North State Street
Concord, NH 03301
(603) 271-3683

The information contained in this electronic message and any attachment to this message may contain confidential or privileged information and is intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s). Please notify the sender immediately at (603) 271-3683 or reply to this email if you are not the intended recipient and destroy all copies of this electronic message and any attachments.

Sidenote: That last bit starting with “The information contained..”?  Has anyone that you know every done the requested phone call or email if they received an email “improperly”?

I wasn’t surprised that it came from him as it seems that all of my Right To Know demands lately are being handed off to lawyers.  And yes, I would have been a bit surprised if I had heard back from either Sherm Packard or Jason Osborne themselves. As in “what’s cooking there in Belknap?” – after all, it’s about their members and not Counselor Cianci’s. Not that I’d actually tell either of them yet, but I’m betting that you, dear readers, may have some good guesses.

And it may be starting to bubble up.

They’re busy people, and I’m probably FAR from being their Number One problem – yet. Belknap County may well be in the process of becoming a thorn in their sides, however (heh!).

Anyways, I have the receipt in accordance with the Law – and that’s all I can ask for at this point.  I let him know that:

—— Original Message ——
From “Skip” <Skip@granitegrok.com>
To “James Cianci” <James.Cianci@leg.state.nh.us>
Date 3/20/2023 2:34:19 PM
Subject Re[2]: Right To Know Demand for the Legislative emails of the NH House Representatives from Belknap County

James,

Thanks for the notification of receipt and an estimated time period for delivery.  Again, if partial results become available, I’d be happy to accept them instead of waiting for all of them at once (especially if that is easier for the email system managers).

-Skip

And so the next new clock starts ticking!