"They would ask for things and I would have to explain to them, 'You can't have this information,'" Thomison told the news station. "In my opinion, they were fishing for information and cases against other people. I told them, 'I can't turn that over. What you're asking me to do is illegal.' And they said, 'Well, are you refusing a direct order? Because if you are, you could be fired for that.'"