No charges will be filed against ex-Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan and other officials for deleting thousands of text messages during the 2020 protests.
Updated:Former Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan speaks at a news conference about the COVID-19 outbreak on March 16, 2020, in Seattle. King County prosecutors announced there will be no charges filed against former Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan and other high-level officials for deleting tens of thousands of text messages during the Black Lives Matter protests of the summer of 2020.
public records contained in any city cell phones, and no evidence that unauthorized access from outside the city had caused the loss of data,” according to an executive summary from the King County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Intelligence Unit provided to KIRO Newsradio from the King County Prosecutor’s Office.
“It was a perfect storm of training delinquencies, outdated and conflicting policies and procedures, and insufficient safeguards to prevent the loss of records that primarily contributed to the destruction of these text message,” the summary stated.
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