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=/div> Our courts recognize that participants in an administrative investigation have a privilege ag=inst a defamation charge. In </=pan>Paros v. Hoemako Hospital, =/span>140 Ariz. 335, 681 P.2d 918 (Ct. App. Div. 2 1984), the court recognized that the employer's response to a notice of charge of discriminatio