The news organization, along with open-government advocacy group Californians Aware, seeks access to a letter sent by a deputy CEO that reportedly alleges a host of improprieties within the county bureaucracy.
Tag: public records
Posted inCorrections, Costa Mesa, Government, Investigative
Fair Board Makes Activists Wait 820 Days for Copies of Public Records
OC Fair & Event Center officials turned over a series of public records nearly 2½ years after an activist requested them.
Posted inAnaheim
Anaheim Charging $19,000 Fee for Public Records That Were Purged
The charge is in response to a Voice of OC request for public records that high-level officials have deleted from city computers. Open-government expert says charge is illegal.
Posted inAnaheim, Norberto Santana Jr.
Shredding Raises Alarm Among Anaheim City Employees
Workers have witnessed a manager in code enforcement shredding
large volumes of documents. City officials insist the shredding is
routine and legal.
Posted inAnaheim
Anaheim City Records Controversy Debated on KPCC’s AirTalk
Larry Mantle discusses email retention policies with CalAware
general counsel Terry Francke and Costa Mesa City Councilman Jim
Righeimer.
Posted inAnaheim
Another Order Issued to Destroy Anaheim City Records
An email from city’s community preservation manager orders
employees to “not archive emails for any purpose.”
Posted inAnaheim
Expert: Anaheim Records Policy Violates State Law
Policy tells employees to purge some records before they are old
enough to be legally destroyed. Orange County DA’s office calls on
employees to come forward with knowledge of illegal destruction of
records.
Posted inAnaheim, Countywide, Investigative, Top Stories
Anaheim City Attorney Investigating Records Purge Order
Last week, an official in the city’s planning department sent a
memo to employees ordering them destroy records.
Posted inCountywide, Investigative, Top Stories
CalPERS Destroying Emails Amid Investigations
The retirement system automatically erases internal emails after
60 days, despite state and federal probes into alleged misdeeds of
its leaders.
Posted inHuntington Beach, Irvine
Irvine, Huntington Beach to Receive Legal Threats Over Email Deletions
An attorney with a First Amendment advocacy group will send
letters to the cities demanding an end to ongoing email
destruction.
