An Albuquerque-based watchdog group filed a lawsuit in Santa Fe District Court on Tuesday accusing the New Mexico Department of Public Safety of repeatedly violating a 47-year-old records law designed to ensure government transparency in the state.

Passed in 1978, the New Mexico Inspection of Public Records Act gives members of the media and the general public the right to access most public records held by state and local governments within 15 days.

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