How Transparent Are New Mexico’s Institutes of Higher Education? (Updated)

The Rio Grande Foundation has been at the forefront of efforts to use New Mexico’s public records laws. Our primary thrust has been to obtain information that was previously quite difficult to retrieve on the payrolls of various government entities. In recent months, we have requested and (usually) obtained the payrolls of New Mexico’s largest cities, all 33 of its counties, and largest school districts.