Brigham Young University filed three separate lawsuits Tuesday challenging the state records committee’s ruling that an interview between a BYU police officer and a former leader of the Missionary Training Center accused of sexual assaulting a woman in the 1980s should be made public.
Lawyers for the private university, which is owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, wrote in the lawsuits that the school’s police department is not subject to Utah open records laws — and argued the state records committee erred in hearing the appeals of KUTV-Channel 2, MormonLeaks and Washington-based lawyer Corbin Volluz.