Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
Wright State Applied Research Corp. asked a Greene County court this week to prevent Wright State University from releasing emails to the Dayton Daily News.
WSARC is nonprofit that operates as Wright State’s research funding arm. The agency argues in its filing Monday in Greene County Common Pleas Court that the records sought by the newspaper are attorney-client privileged.
The records Wright State wants to release but the research corporation doesn’t are an unredacted version of 2,757 pages of emails to and from WSARC CEO Dennis Andersh, who also is employed by Wright State as executive director of its research institute.
A heavily redacted version of the records — a large number of pages blacked out entirely — were provided to the Dayton Daily News in August 2020 in response to a public records request made in January 2019. Wright State informed WSARC it intended to provide the newspaper with the unredacted records after the Dayton Daily News objected to the number of redactions, the court filing says.
Judge Stephen Wolaver granted a temporary restraining order preventing Wright State from releasing more records until Oct. 19 and scheduled an Oct. 13 hearing on the matter.
The records requested by the Dayton Daily News were three months of emails from 2018 to or from Andersh referencing the Advanced Technical Intelligence Center, an intelligence school supported by Wright State, as well as emails referencing the local consulting firm CBD Advisors. The newspaper also requested Andersh’s personnel file and records of the sale of ATIC’s Beavercreek property.
