CLEVELAND, Ohio – For the second time in a month, cleveland.com has learned that Cuyahoga County Executive Armond Budish’s administration released incomplete information while purporting to have provided all of the information.

The latest instance involves search terms that corruption investigators had provided to help the county Law Department sort as many as 1 million emails that investigators had demanded in a subpoena last month.

Cleveland.com asked for all of the search terms, or “keywords,” on Feb. 25, after Interim Law Director Nora Hurley mentioned them at a public meeting. Hurley’s office responded the same day by providing 18 keywords, but failed to disclose that it had withheld 15 other terms.

In the earlier case, cleveland.com belatedly discovered that county officials had failed to provide a complete copy of a letter that Budish sent in June to County Council about health-care problems at the county jails. Instead, cleveland.com was given a version of the letter that was missing two paragraphs.

The county attributed the blunder involving the letters to someone “inadvertently” sending a “draft” of the letter to County Council leaders and then sending cleveland.com the “final” version that had been edited at Budish’s request.

Both episodes call into question the administration’s claims of transparency and its adherence to Ohio’s public records laws.

In the case of the keywords, the county Law Department turned over what it claimed was the complete list of 33 search terms on March 4.

Hurley has offered two different explanations for why her office did not immediately turn over the complete list.

On March 4, she said she did not know why cleveland.com had not received the complete list. In a phone interview Friday, Hurley said she had not provided the complete list on Feb. 25 because she was waiting for a corruption investigator to approve revisions that had been made to it.

The county subsequently waited three days to comply with a March 4 request for copies of the emails that were exchanged by the Law Department and investigators about the search terms.

On March 6, county spokeswoman Mary Louise Madigan said Hurley was seeking written authorization to release the emails from the Ohio Attorney General’s Office, which took over the corruption investigation last December after Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael O’Malley recused himself.

According to Madigan, Hurley said she was seeking the authorization because an assistant county prosecutor involved with the investigation had earlier told her not to release the search terms because it could jeopardize the probe.

At 6 p.m. on March 7, the county released copies of the emails.

Contacted by phone on Friday, AG spokesman Dave O’Neil said: “We did not tell the law director that she should not release the search terms.”

The search terms relate to emails dealing with problems at the county jails. The subpoena, the 17th served on the county by corruption investigators, sought emails between Budish and four current or former county administrators.

At the start of what is now a yearlong probe, investigators sought records mostly dealing with the county’s troubled IT Department. But investigators pivoted early this year to the jails, where the U.S. Marshal Service found evidence of “inhumane” treatment of inmates.