SANTA FE — It may be Sunshine Week — a nationwide initiative focused on the importance of access to public documents and information — but New Mexico lawmakers are halfway toward adopting a resolution creating an exception for legislative emails.

“For me, email is no different than a telephone conversation I have with another person,” Rep. Don Bratton, R-Hobbs, said. “They’re personal. This is a constitutional issue and right to privacy … (people asking to see emails on the legislative account) have no right to that.”