credit card records

The Commercial Appeal reported today that the city of Memphis denied full access to statements from government-issued credit cards, saying the personal purchases made by government officials on the cards are not disclosable under the Tennessee Public Records Act. Under the credit card program, now discontinued, each government official was responsible for paying his own card, and had to submit separately for reimbursement when the purchases were for government. While the city says the employees paid the bill for their personal purchases, the Commercial Appeal so far has been unable to determine just how much in personal purchasing went on. TCOG is quoted in the story, and the Commercial Appeal gave [...]