State Sen. Mike Fair, the chairman of the Senate Corrections and Penology Committee, is demanding the complete disclosure of names and facts in the pornography e-mail investigation at the S.C. Department of Corrections. Fair told The State, “There can’t be even a perception of the administration covering this up.”

At Fair’s request, corrections turned over the results of an internal investigation to Attorney General Henry McMaster.

At Fair’s prompting, the Corrections Department has acknowledged that some employees used state computers to circulate pornographic e-mails. The department said last Thursday it had suspended two managers but refused to release their names.

State laws make child pornography illegal. But pictures of nude adult women — which Corrections has said were on its computers — may not violate state law. That’s because they don’t depict sexual acts, according to a May 8 letter from Daniel J. Murphy, the department’s inspector general, to top state officials.

Corrections spokesman Josh Gelinas said e-mails containing pornography were sent to “fewer than 10” Corrections employees.

“At least two of the individuals that received them asked that the individual sending them stop,” Gelinas said. “Another simply deleted it.”

Gov. Mark Sanford, who oversees the Department of Corrections, supported director Jon Ozmint’s decision to not release the identities of the managers involved — at least temporarily. [JOHN MONK, The State]