After 10 months, LePage’s staff produces only three documents in answer to a request for public documents.

Messages reveal efforts to keep the session on education funding private, a decision that has become the focus of a legal complaint by the Attorney General’s Office.

The governor’s communications director says the pledge doesn’t address the law enforcement aspect of the drug crisis and calls for expanding access to naloxone, which the governor opposes.

It may be the first time that an attorney general has taken legal action against a governor’s administration for violating freedom of access laws.

Cynthia Montgomery, now a judge, told the governor he could delay the vetoes, records show, but 65 bills then became law over his objections.