Storm clouds across government
Lawmakers use of legislative privilege to shield documents isn’t the only recent example of Washington officials avoiding avoiding public disclosure.
Nearly 200 text messages were found to be deleted from former Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan’s phone that could have shed light on the city’s response to the social-justice protests of 2020, according to The Seattle Times. Text messages of other officials were likewise wiped out.
Last spring, Crosscut reported that officials involved in Washington’s once-a-decade redistricting process withheld dozens of texts between the appointed commissioners and legislative workers in the face of a request for public records. The commission later admitted in court that it broke
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