Posted on 09/25/2015 8:45:32 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Hillary Clinton is not the only person facing trouble over the use of personal email to avoid the pesky necessity of turning over communications to public scrutiny. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has just been sued by the Chicago Tribune over his use of private emails and texts with regard to public business. Steve Mills of the Tribune reports:
The Chicago Tribune filed a lawsuit Thursday alleging that Mayor Rahm Emanuel violated state open records laws by refusing to release communications about city business conducted through private emails and text messages.
The lawsuit, filed in Cook County Circuit Court, asks a judge to order the mayor to comply with a state Freedom of Information Act request from the Tribune and produce the documents. The lawsuit also seeks to have Emanuel declared in violation of the Illinois Local Records Act for failing to preserve emails and texts he sent or received while doing city business.
The specific issues that the Trib has been investigating are Chicago’s red light cameras and Rahm’s relationship to a hedge fund magnate:
The lawsuit against Emanuel grew out of a FOIA request in June from Tribune reporter David Kidwell. Kidwell's request sought emails, text messages and other electronic communications between Jan. 1, 2015, and June 30, 2015, related to the city'sscandal-plagued red light camera program.
Kidwell and the Tribune have reported aggressively on the program, challenging many of the city's claims about its effectiveness. That reporting led to a bribery indictment of a former city official and revealed inconsistent enforcement and lax oversight.
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You can count on it.
The scum doesn’t fall far from the bag....
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