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Resident alleges unlawful records deletions, urges immediate halt and external investigation
Summary
A mother who says her daughter's rape-case evidence was deleted told council the town has been auto-deleting records and demanded an external investigation and that deletions stop immediately. She tied the deletions to other unresolved cases and criticized a council member's social-media comment about her residency.
A Gilbert resident told the Town Council on Oct. 28 that the town clerk had ordered deletion of records tied to her daughter's sexual-assault investigation and demanded that all automatic deletions stop and that an independent external investigation be launched.
Carissa Arnold identified herself as the mother of a 16-year-old who was raped and said materials related to the case were deleted after what she described as a town-clerk-ordered deletion policy. "Gilbert destroyed any…
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