And the Testing one, two three, testing one, two one two three this is radio free Mormon on the air

broadcasting behind enemy lines tonight's episode the decision of the Utah State Records Committee.

Today is June 11, 2020.

It is currently 951 Mountain Standard Time.

In just 15 minutes, the Utah State Records Committee will convene and will be giving me a call to patch me into the hearing at which they will make their announcement as to which emails, if any, they are going to release to the public pursuant to my public disclosure

request.

For those of you who have not been following along, a little over two years ago, the news broke

regarding McKenna Denson's allegation of being raped by former missionary

training center president Joseph Bishop in the basement of the MTC.

When that story broke in March of 2018, the news media made a public disclosure request to the

BYU Police Department asking for their reports, their investigation of Joseph Bishop.

BYU PD responded by providing only of In addition to that, there were other redactions that were made, there were obviously not the standard sort of redactions that we typically see in public disclosure information.

Because of that, I did a separate public disclosure request in 2019 after the legislature had

officially designated the BYU Police Department as a public agency and

therefore subject to public disclosure requests under the grandma statute in Utah.

What I wanted to find out was who was making these decisions as to what to redact and

what not to redact in the police reports because it was obvious to me that this was not a decision that was being made solely by the police department.

And I base that on the fact of my long years of experience dealing with just these sorts of public disclosure requests to law enforcement agencies.

These redactions were anything but the typical sort of redactions I commonly see.

Well, BYU P.D has been fighting me tooth and nail every inch of the way.

They did provide to me a privilege log which

contain not the contents of the emails but the fact that there were

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