By Howard Fischer | Capitol Media Services via Arizona Daily Star
The state is asking a judge to throw out a libel suit filed by the former director and the former security chief of the Department of Economic Security.
At issue is a Department of Public Safety report about former DES Director Tim Jeffries and security chief Charles Loftus describing a cache of weapons and ammunition DES had accumulated, under the pair’s supervision, for its own security force.
In a new legal filing, attorney for the state Daniel Dowd told a Maricopa County judge the report simply contained statements of facts and the state did nothing to defame or libel either man.
