Sherrill rejects participating with FOIA request on Navy records
She faced questions around her role in a cheating scandal shortly before Election Day.
By Daniel Han & Madison Fernandez, PolitcoPro, Dec. 22, 2025
EAST BRUNSWICK, New Jersey — Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill is declining to participate with a public records request to authorize the release of her Navy disciplinary records, her transition team told POLITICO.
POLITICO put in a federal Freedom of Information Act request requesting Sherrill’s Navy records — specifically for disciplinary records related to an academic cheating scandal that happened when Sherrill was in the Naval academy. The Navy said access to such records would require Sherrill to authorize them, which her transition team said she would not do.
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