According to the commission’s executive director, some of the text messages in question were deleted. That could be a violation of state law.
Lisa McLean, executive director of the Redistricting Commission, acknowledged on Thursday that the commission appeared to have withheld some text messages that should have been released in response to Crosscut’s Nov. 17 records request.
McLean said other text messages were not available to release because one of the redistricting commissioners, April Sims, deleted many of her text messages before the request came in, most likely on the morning of Nov. 16. That was only a few hours after the commission voted to approve new redistricting plans that
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