New Jersey Governor Chris Christie invoked the executive privilege exception in denying the requests of Gawker reporter John Cook to correspondence, calendar entries and phone logs on a dinner with Fox News President Roger Ailes who encouraged Christie to run for president.
Chistie eventually submitted a calendar entry about the dinner after the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit under New Jersey’s Open Public Records Act. -db
From a commentary for the American Civil Liberties Union, July 25, 2011, by Steve Gosset.