OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Omaha mayor has issued an executive order that says city-related text messages on the personal cellphones of city employees won’t be considered a public record.

But the Nebraska attorney general’s office says otherwise, concluding in a legal opinion issued last month that government-related texts are public record even if they’re on a private cellphone.

It weighed in on the issue after the Omaha World-Herald asked the office to clarify the status and public’s access to officials’ texts involving government business. The newspaper’s executive editor says the mayor “openly defies” the attorney general’s legal opinion on the matter.

Mayor Jean Stothert’s order announced Monday discourages city staff from conducting business through texts and advises them to instead communicate through email.