BY TRIBUNE STAFF

A Billings-based cooperative, the Southern Montana Electric Generation & Transmission Cooperative, met a Sept. 4 deadline for filing a brief in a long-standing open-records dispute with a Helena group.

The Montana Environmental Information Center filed suit against the city of Great Falls and SME, arguing a number of records being withheld from public view by the city should be released.

In this month's filing, SME offered its rationale for keeping away from public view more than 500 documents, including e-mails, packets of information, letters, drafts of letters and other records.

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