AT&T pushes lawmakers, state officials to block document release [telecom]

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By Dave Gram

The public safety communications project known as FirstNet has been criticized - even by some of the officials closely involved with it - as being shrouded in too much secrecy.

Now the leak of two consultants' reviews of plans for the public safety broadband buildout has state officials and corporate lawyers scrambling to find the leaker and demand that the recipient of the leak return copies and not disseminate them further.