AG: Gibbons' personal e-mails not public

(AP) - The Nevada attorney general's office says personal e-mails on Gov. Jim Gibbons' state computer are not public records.

In a Nevada Supreme Court brief, Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto's office says personal messages or those not concerning public business are not subject to a public records request.

The filing is in response to an appeal by Reno Newspapers Inc., which is seeking all e-mails sent by Gibbons on his state computer from January to June 2008.

A Carson City judge earlier ruled that only six of the 104 e-mails in question were public record.

The newspaper appealed, and is also asking for a log of all recipients, senders, subject matters and reasons public access was denied.

The AG's brief says the state has "no pre-litigation duty" to create such an index.