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The only way to enforce the public records law is to file a lawsuit. Commissioners like KVO know this, so they ignore County and conduct county business on their personal phones where text messages from Carlos Beruff can be hidden. My simple little public records lawsuit - which I am doing pro se as a blue-collar electrical worker with no legal training - is about KVO, Satcher, Bishop and the County providing some, but not all of their public record text messages from Jan 15-19, 2024 - really just 4 days because the 15th was a holiday.The County attorney could easily defend all 4 defendants, the issue is not complicated. Instead, each of the 4 defendants have their own outside team of attorneys, including the County. Each filing their own motions (there have been several). The case is dragging out, racking up billable hours, I'm sure - which, even if I win, they will first ask me to pay saying I didn't actually "prevail" and if that fails, the taxpayers will be asked to pick up the wasteful tab. I am not criticising the attorneys in my case - they are just doing their job - But why have a County attorney's office just to attend the Commission's half-day meetings? At last month's impact fee hearing, the County attorney cowered at the thought of having to defend a decision to use "extraordinary circumstances" to charge fair impact fees. So my question is what is the annual budget of the County Attorney's office and what do their team of in-house lawyers do all day?