New practices
By then, after questions from reporters, legislative leaders had changed their internal practices for redacting records, and multiple lawmakers whose documents had been redacted said they never asserted legislative privilege to shield information from the public in the first place. Journalists learned at that time that some lawmakers were redacting records on behalf of others.
The Senate released the new records July 20 to those members of the public who originally made the requests and to news organizations like Crosscut and McClatchy, which had requested copies of records where redactions had been applied.
“We are supplementing your request with additional records,” that message stated, naming the 11 current
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