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The essential records and essential records do include among other things, records required for the protection for the rights of individuals. And that could be the individuals within the department or Something Like that. But, i think cha is essential here and what seems to be glossed over because we are focusing on this one narrow issue here. Is a much bigger one that i hope that you take up in some form or another and that is you have clear evidence before you. That you cannot deny in writing. That members of the department, highly paid members of the department directly reporting to the director of the department, basically tried to intercede and prevent the public from meeting and discussing a matter of Public Policy and used the weight of their office and their title to basically try to keep people from meeting and discussing something as a public concern. I think whether or not that is addressable under the particular thing that you are hearing tonight, would i ask you just as a
Has not been forth coming to this body or to any of us. She did not come in and say, gee, olive i have records and deleted them now what i do . She just pretended like they never existed. This is an indictment, you cant ignore it. Thank you. Good evening, my name is nan clark i have never been to an Ethics Commission meeting and i think that you have a really hard job ahead of you and i like to speak to that just briefly. Earlier tonight, in the meeting and i dont know who said it, which side they were on or even whether it came from you, it has been a long evening, it was something to the effect that the reason we have the brown act and the sunshine ordinance the California Public records act is because government activity must be as transparent as possible. And i think that you found tonight and both of the cases that you have heard that the goment transparency is not very transparent. And whether we talk about it in terms of emails or we talk about it in terms of budget and finances
Sunshine requests, i feel like there cant really be a finding of willful violation because there was and there is no protocol on back up tapes and that is the piece that i am struggling with here. Maybe i. There is no citywide policy on back up tapes. So, our advice to the departments across city has been when you receive a sunshine request or a public records request you are not required to go and search back up tape which as commissioners studley said is not even in your department. I guess that i just want to clarify that. Okay. Thank you. Any other comments on the commissioners . Anybody like to make a motion regarding this agenda item . I would move that we find that mr. Ginsberg did not willfully violate the sections of the sunshine ordinance sections that were referred to, 67. 25, 67. 26, 67. 27, or 67. 21. Yes. inaudible . All right i am looking at the memo from the staff and it says that the task board made a motion finding that mark beul and Phil Ginsberg and ballard and gong
Questions. Commissioners . Studley pointed exactly the point that is troubling me because i think that mr. Ginsberg himself did conduct the search and there were no responsive documents so i do understand that technically, the answer was correct and he responded in the way that the ordinance contemplates but at the same time, what troubles me about this particular instance is that the request came in only a few weeks after the event occurred and you know, there was, or there may have been and i understand it is now too years and so, mr. Ginsberg does not recall specifically, but there may have been a recollection at the time, that he had deleted an email and why he didnt immediately say, you know, i deleted the email and so there may have been a back up tape available to go and look for at the department of technology, that is the aspect that troubles me. But now having heard from mr. Gibner that there is no citywide policy on directing agencies to the department of technology for back