OLATHE — The Associated Press sued a Kansas county Thursday, alleging it has wrongly withheld public records involving alleged fiscal misconduct by the county’s former elections chief who later took a top U.S. elections job.
The lawsuit names Johnson County’s governing board as defendants and seeks under the state’s open-records law emails related to Brian Newby’s role as county election commissioner before he took a job in November as the U.S. Election Assistance Commission’s executive director.