King County prosecutors announced they will not seek charges against former Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan, former Police Chief Carmen Best and Fire Chief Harold Scoggins for allegedly deleting text messages during the 2020 racial justice protests.
and the city attorney’s office hired Crypsis in Nov. 2020. But the information didn’t become public until May 2021, when the Seattle Ethics and Elections Commission issued a whistleblower investigation report.
Carmen Best manually deleted thousands of text messages, testifying she routinely did so believing the city automatically archived texts in a ‘cloud.’ An IT employee confirmed this was only the case for city emails, which were backed up to a cloud. This was not the case for text messages on city-issued phones.
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