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RITZVILLE, Wash. - A judge Thursday granted a newspaper's request to make public the contents of Spokane Mayor James E. West's city-owned laptop computer, but prevented the release of 3,300 pictures from a gay-oriented Web site.
Adams County Superior Court Judge Richard Miller ordered the release of an index of the dates and times West used the computer to access Gay.com and other Web sites, but with individual Web addresses redacted to protect the privacy of third parties.
West is the subject of a Dec. 6 recall election because of a sex scandal involving gay men, and several news organizations have demanded the release of the contents of West's computer under the state's Open Public Records Act.
The judge reviewed the contents of the mayor's hard drive. He said he found 3,300 photographs. About 100 of those were pictures of nude males.
