Legal advice from state attorneys general sought by other government officials often has been treated as a public record — but not in every state.
The state Capitol dome in Harrisburg. October 14, 2022. Dan Gleiter | [email protected], Wyo. — When officials in Wyoming faced public pressure to allow a citizen recount of election results, they reached out to the state attorney general for legal advice about how to proceed.
The most recent opinions available online date from 2020 or earlier in Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Vermont. There are no legal opinions readily accessible online in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Utah. That’s the promise, at least, in North Carolina, where the website for Attorney General Josh Stein states that copies of attorney general’s opinions will be available online “approximately one week after issuance.” Yet none has been posted online since 2010.
The Wyoming attorney general’s office hasn’t publicly posted a formal opinion since Dec. 11, 2018, when it concluded that some slot-machine-type games amount to “illegal gambling devices.” Both of those legal opinions cast doubt on an ultimately prohibited citizen effort to recount by hand the 2020 vote in Park County, Wyoming, a deeply conservative hub of agriculture and tourism at the eastern approach to Yellowstone National Park.
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