![]() ![]() ![]() According to the complaint, the Durkan administration “constructively discharged” Ferreiro April 2nd and Irwin on July 1st. The Seattle Times reports the City has already spent $201,000 on that analysis and consultant report.Īlready, it has become clear Durkan’s office lied in May 2021 when the missing texts became public, initially blaming the loss of the records to an “unknown technology issue,” even though “emails indicate her office had known for months that Durkan’s texts were set to automatically delete on a phone she started using in July 2020,” Kalb and Beekman wrote, adding “Neither Durkan nor the IT department has taken responsibility for selecting that setting, which violates state law and the city’s retention policies.”Ĭity employees since 2014, Irwin and Ferreiro both worked in the public records office as Senior Public Disclosure Advisors until 2021 when the Mayor’s coverup began to unravel. A forensic analysis on how the text messages of Durkan and eight other top officials in her administration came to be deleted and if more can be recovered is pending. While both Chen and Mayor Durkan deny the existence of a coverup, the case could dredge up further proof of one. The lawsuit is on top of another set filed in July in which each whistleblower is seeking $5 million in damages. “ The seven-page complaint - filed in King County Superior Court by Stacy Irwin and Kimberly Ferreiro - contends that in response to their repeated efforts to ‘honestly comply’ with the records law, the former public records officers were ‘routinely subjected to scorn, ridicule, abuse, and hostility’ from the mayor’s former legal counsel, Michelle Chen, and other unidentified ‘managers at the City of Seattle,'” Lewis Kalb and Daniel Beekman reported. Whistleblowers in the scandal around Mayor Jenny Durkan’s missing texts and mishandling of public records requests have filed suit against the City of Seattle for retaliation, the Seattle Times reported late last night. She has since been embroiled in a scandal over destroying public records. ![]() Mayor Jenny Durkan announced she wasn't running for reelection in December 2020, but boasted she would win if she did. ![]()
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