Bismarck, N.D. (AP) North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem says the Morton County Sheriff's Office did not violate open records law concerning a request for information about a deputy's whereabouts.
Stenehjem says a citizen had asked for records regarding the reason a sheriff's deputy was at a particular address. The attorney general says there no records to turn over in the case, and therefore no violation of law.
The ruling says the sheriff's office did tell the requester that a deputy was on the property to serve civil papers, but the department does not keep copies of the civil papers it attempts to serve.
Stenehjem says the department "went beyond the legal requirements'' of the open records law.