Mayor Karen may be in deep, deep trouble here.
The Los Angeles Times has been investigating LA Mayor Karen Bass's international trip to Ghana which took place right as the Los Angeles wildfires sparked. This is in addition to Bass investigating herself.
What the LA Times wants to know is, why does Mayor Bass have her government phone programmed to auto-delete text messages?
When flames erupted in Pacific Palisades on Jan. 7, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass was more than 7,000 miles away, on a diplomatic mission to Africa.
Bass headed home shortly thereafter and was in transit for nearly 24 hours as the fire ravaged the Palisades and surrounding communities.
She and her office have said she was in constant communication during that period. But it's impossible to know exactly what she was communicating, because her messages were not saved, according to a city lawyer.
'Her phone is set not to save text messages,' said the lawyer, David Michaelson.
Michaelson said that there is 'no requirement that a city official or employee save text messages,' despite the fact that the city's own document retention policies dictate that most records should be kept for at least two years.
So, Mayor Bass sets her messages on her government phone to automatically delete. Even though government documents legally must be kept for two years.
So the question is whether these texts were legally deleted or not.
Oh yeah, and the other question: What was she saying that she didn't want us to see?
From the Times:
Under state law, 'any writing' related to the conduct of government is deemed a public record. On Jan. 10, The Times filed a public records request for all text messages sent or received by the mayor while she was in transit on Jan. 7 or Jan. 8 that mention fire response or her travel plans.
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Los Angeles Administrative Code Section 12.3(b)(6) dictates that most records 'shall be retained for a minimum of two years unless a shorter period is otherwise permitted by law or a longer period is otherwise required by law, or unless, consistent with state law, a different period of retention is established by order or resolution of the Council.'
Yes, this appears to be the LA Times accusing the LA mayor of illegal activity.
Good luck Mayor Karen!
Remember, the coverup is always worse than the crime!
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