Why does London Breed keep illegally deleting her text messages?
Every time San Francisco’s mayor hits “delete” on her texts, she does democracy a disservice.
The public has a right to know what its officials are up to and what they do with public money. That’s especially true in a highly engaged city like San Francisco, which adopted its Sunshine Ordinance to ensure access to public records.
Sadly, though, Mayor London Breed’s apparent penchant for conducting government business by texting, then deleting the texts, has dimmed the sunshine and kept the public in the dark.
The mayor’s office, it turns out, routinely deletes text messages, even when they have to do with public business, as reported by Mission Local. Often, people who ask for public records are told the mayor has none, even when officials from other departments produce texts Breed has sent them.
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