Nonprofit ethics watchdog group American Oversight and the law firm Ballard Spahr filed the suit Monday in Arlington County Circuit Court.
The suit seeks documents that show how Youngkin and his staff used the tip line, including how they responded to tips submitted.
“What is the tip line’s true purpose and how has the Administration acted on these ‘tips’?” Heather Sawyer, executive director of American Oversight, said in a statement. “What is it about this program that they don’t want the public to see?” Youngkin spokeswoman Macaulay Porter on Wednesday referred a request for comment to the state attorney general’s office. A spokeswoman for Attorney General Jason S. Miyares said the office does not comment on pending litigation.The new lawsuit follows a suit filed in April by The Washington Post and a dozen other media outlets in Richmond Circuit Court.
Youngkin, who won the governorship in 2021 partly by promising to root out “critical race theory” and other “inherently divisive” subjects from public education, created the tip line in January, shortly after taking office. He announced that parents should report teachers who discuss “divisive” concepts in the classroom by emailing“We’re asking for folks to send us reports and observations,” Youngkin said in a radio interview around the same time.
Sawyer, the American Oversight director, previously filed several public records requests asking for copies of emails sent to [email protected], as well as emails from Youngkin’s staff responding to the tip line or discussing procedures for how to handle tip line submissions.
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