At last nights work session we learned that all city council audio files video files and hard copy minutes will be destroyed if they are over 1 year old. Why would the
Tilghman administration be in such a hurry to destroy documents? If we have learned anything in the last few years its that old issues have a way of rearing there ugly head from time to time..the old mall issues come to mind..How are the elected representatives going to be able to do there jobs effectively if they cannot get data that is over 1 year old. I would recommend everyone and anyone reading this article to contact the administration and demand they keep those records. File your own
FOIA {freedom of information request} and ask for the copies before they are destroyed, which they have the authority right now to do. It
definitely looks like a loop hole for the administration to
effectively destroy all evidence possibly showing
impropriety before election season.
Somebody needs to contact the State of Maryland. Municipalities are required to have a records retention policy and get approval from the State before destroying any documents. Looks like Barrie is worried she and her cronies will be out with the next election and they don't want to leave anything they can be prosecuted with. I'd recommend all clerical workers for the City, start copying everything to DVD or CD, electronically send files elsewhere for storage (Google has storage capabilities) before the criminals get their hands on everything to destroy it.
ReplyDeleteThis has gotta to be illegal, Its Salisburygate, Lady who the hell do you think you are. Eventualy were gonna run your ass out of our town.
ReplyDeletethere has to be some federal/state law about the time frame they are required to keep these records.
ReplyDelete1 year just does not sound legal
Doesn't the law state that those documents must be maintained for several years?
ReplyDeleteWith modern scanning and digital imaging, keeping an archival copy is no problem -- and the City recently got the equipment needed.
ReplyDeleteneed some lawyering here...
ReplyDeleteis there any state law behind? 3-5 years sounds much more reasonable... court cases routinely take over 1 year.... imagine defending the city in a suit, and then saying all this has been destroyed....
im assuming this is because it has been captured digitally, right?
Cohen and Campbell asked for 8 years, then 6. Smith wanted 1 year and Shields agreed. Accountability, transparency, the only transparency that Smith is achieving is the great big hole that will now exist where important documents used to be. Fact of the matter is that the time frames had already been submitted to the state for approval. This was the first time that the council had seen it. The time frames have been approved by the state. If they haven't taken the briefing book down from yesterday's work session you can view the schedules. We should be outraged by what is being destroyed under the "watch" of this administration.
ReplyDeleteEveryone needs to go to the city website and start downloading everything you possibly can, save it to CDs. Lets all start hitting PAC 14 for the videos for the past 10 years. Everything from the day that bitch took office. Lets ROCK N ROLL
ReplyDeleteIt would be awesome if the destroyed records meant that none of the poor decisions made in the past 8 years are legally binding!
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