Reporter sues W.Va. State, president over FOIA requests | The West Virginia Record

CHARLESTON -- A freelance reporter is suing West Virginia State University for failing to satisfy repeated Freedom of Information Act requests.

Hazo W. Carter Jr., the president of West Virginia State University, was also named as a defendant in the suit.

On Aug. 17, 2011, Jay Lawrence Smith read in an article published in the Charleston Daily Mail of a study WVSU commissioned to help determine ways it could raise nearly $26 million in private funds, according to a complaint filed April 9 in Kanawha Circuit Court.

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