A government watchdog group has sued the Interior Department for a nine-month lag in turning over public records about President Donald Trump’s influence over national park history and education.
The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, argues that Interior has failed to produce documents related to a Freedom of Information Act request from Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility.
“The public has a right to know who inside this administration is deciding what version of American history gets told at our national parks and other public lands, and on what basis,” said Tony Irish, PEER senior counsel and a former Interior lawyer. “Instead, the Office of the Secretary has spent nearly a year stonewalling a simple records request.”
In a statement Interior defended the historical review but did not comment on the lawsuit.
