EAST LANSING -- Michigan State University will not release police video of state Rep. Bob Genetski performing roadside sobriety tests because it constitutes an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy, a university official says.

The refusal comes after the video was played in its entirety including the sobriety tests during a public hearing Monday related to the Saugatuck Republicans arrest for drunken driving.

The copy released by the university one day later, a month after MLive Media Group requested it through the Freedom of Information Act, is edited to remove Genetskis performance on the tests.

The deletions include his responses when the MSU police officer asks him to recite the alphabet, count backwards and walk in a straight line.

See how Michigan State University's Freedom of Information Office redacted details from police reports on state Rep. Robert Genetski's roadside sobriety tests.

The video is also edited to remove Genetski telling the officer he had consumed two beers, the last of which he said occurred half an hour before the traffic stop.

To me it is something of a personal nature, intimate and embarrassing, said Ellen Armentrout, MSUs Freedom of Information Act officer.

She said she knew the tape had been played in full in a drivers license suspension hearing which MLive attended but said just because something is public in one venue does not mean it is public in all venues.

The edited video does show the exchange between Genetski and the officer when Genetski declines to take a breath test at the scene:

Genetski: Im not taking the test. I want to see the reading that shows I was going 44 mph.

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MSU will not release video showing state Rep. Bob Genetski taking roadside sobriety tests