CH2MHill Gets Further Delay in Suit for Records

BATON ROUGE — More than one year after the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Central City News in its public records case against CH2MHill, the corporate giant has still produced no public records, as the newspaper requested under state law.  The corporation had the contract to administer the City of Central from 2007 to 2010.  In January 2013, District Judge Kay Bates ordered CH2MHill to produce documents in connection with the public records case.
Yesterday, the judge extended CH2MHill’s time to produce documents to Aug. 20 and set a pre-trial conference for Sept. 25.  Central City News publisher Woody Jenkins said it has been three years since the newspaper made its public records request, which are supposed to provided within five days.  The News sued and asked for a trial within 10 days.  That trial has never been held.  Jenkins said the process makes a mockery of state law.