Jenny Durkan/AP Photo (Tim Gruver, The Center Square ) The city of Seattle is suing its newspaper of record over a public records lawsuit concerning missing text messages from public officials who include Mayor Jenny Durkan.
The countersuit concerns a public records lawsuit filed by the Seattle Times last month intended to obtain text messages sent and received by Durkan and others.
Those messages discussed the city’s response to civil unrest that began last summer in Seattle’s former Capitol Hill Occupied Protest Zone . In its lawsuit, the Seattle Times sought to obtain the requested messages, cover its legal costs and compel the city to pursue new policies preventing such incidents.
Two whistleblowers, Stacy Irwin and Kim Ferreiro, filed a complaint with the city in May alleging they were instructed to conceal the reality that those messages were missing.They both sued the city last week for $5 million, claiming that they were […]
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