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Commission debates mayoral staff calendar deletions; requests records recovery but accepts staff finding of no ordinance violation
Summary
After public testimony that mayoral chief of staff deleted electronic calendar entries, the commission authorized staff to ask city departments whether deleted calendar entries can be recovered and unanimously adopted staff’s recommendation that the Ethics Commission lacked jurisdiction to find a willful Sunshine Ordinance violation by Steve Kawa.
The San Francisco Ethics Commission spent much of its Sept. 26 meeting considering a Sunshine Ordinance Task Force referral that alleged the mayor’s chief of staff had deleted portions of his electronic calendar, impeding public records access.
Public advocate Michael Petrellis laid out the complaint, displaying calendar pages and arguing that entries for parts of 2015 were blank or deleted. Petrellis urged the commission to compel investigators to move on the complaint and to make records-retention rules explicit in writing.
Staff (Jessica Blum) told the commission the task force found that Mr. Kawa had deleted calendar entries and referred the matter for enforcement, but the city attorney’s office argued that many employee electronic communications…
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