(Bismarck, ND) A North Dakota judge has ruled that thousands of Dakota Access Pipeline security records are public and open records. South Central District Judge Cynthia Feland made the ruling Friday in favor of The Intercept.
A ruling last week by a North Dakota district court judge could open up some 16,000 documents related to a partnership between operators of the Dakota Access Pipeline and the private security contractor TigerSwan during the Standing Rock protests of five years ago.
A state judge has ruled that thousands of documents related to security during the construction in North Dakota of the heavily protested Dakota Access Pipeline are public and subject to the state s open records law.