The Los Angeles Times (The Times) sue the city for Mayor Karen Bass is allegedly deleting texts in the midst of a strained response to California fires.
Handling a crisis of local officials is widely convicted as California government indictmentEspecially with a bass on a trip to Africa for the oath of President Gana, when the Palisades fire broke out on January 7th. The mayor did not return to LA until January 8th.
The Times sued the City of LA on Thursday, accusing officials of violating the law by withholding and erasing the mayor’s text messages and other records during wild fires.
In the news of an article on his own lawsuit, the writer of Times Sonja Sharp Staff reported“The city has already transmitted many exchanges between Mayor Karen Bass and other officials sought by journalists Times. But officials claimed that they were not forced to do so under the Laws on State Public Records.”
“Times didn’t agree,” Sharp wrote. “Emping public officers to purify their records or decide which subject to law sets a dangerous precedent, the Thursday claims.”
Mayor Los Angeles’s government Karen Bass is now suing La Times. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
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“It’s bigger than these text messages,” Kelly Aviles said an external Times advice. “The city seems to believe that they can destroy everything they want whenever they want and have no public duty to retain public records.”
The Times reported that the mayor’s office, after being said at first that the texts had been deleted, “eventually said that he was able to recover deleted texts, and last week he provided about 125 messages, noting that the vague number of others was” redded and/or retained “on the basis of the law.”
Mayor’s advisor David Michaelson told Times reporter Julia Wick that these so -called “Ephesian” texts were beyond the reach of the California Law on Public Records and “quoted the 1981 Supreme Court’s decision that invented” fragrant thoughts and random information “as an exemption from a request for records.”
But Times attorneys claimed that this did not apply to texts and other electronic communications.
La Mayor Karen Bass recently admitted that she regretted being in Gana, while the fires broke out in her city. (AP/Getty)
“The apparent stop of the city that the clerk can delete text communication at any time, because the” eurano “, until a public request for records would destroy the assumption of access to public records,” the Times claim. “All the public official would have to do to avoid public surveillance destroy the texts immediately after he created them.”
The Times further reported that these were not the only records that were destroyed, nor are they the only journalists still actively persecuting.
It has been said that researcher Alene Tchekmedyian sought “e-mails, text messages, reports, documents planning and Memorandum of fire planning and resources before the La fire of the then fire Chief Kristin Crowley And her subordinate.
Likewise, City Hall reporter David Zapniser allegedly submitted a request for “copies of correspondence regarding emergency preparations, strong winds, fire conditions and national meteorological service.”
The Times said: “The Uprise received some records, but not the text messages he was looking for. Tchekmedyian’s request was closed without any communications.”
Mayor Los Angeles Karen Bass has been criticized for answering the city to fires. (Photo Apu Gomes/Getty Images | Photo Alberto Rodriguez/Variety via Getty Images)
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Michaelson said Fox News Digital In E -adoring “Mayor’s Office has responded to hundreds of public records since she was elected, and we will continue this. The mayor’s office has published appropriate texts at the law of Times last week, and the office will continue to respond to public records.”
Fox News Digital also reached for a comment from La Times and the city lawyer, but did not receive an immediate response.
Fox News’ Stephen Sorace contributed to this report.
