What are they hiding? The board of records is illegally destroying records!
In a unanimous 2017 vote, the supervisors approved a policy that separates official records that must be kept from transitory ones that can be destroyed at each supervisor’s discretion. These include notes, working drafts and communications, according to published reports. But the judge did not accept that distinction, which apparently was crafted out of thin air. Neither the
Five days after a judge reopened an investigation into Orange County’s use of jailhouse informants, the sheriff’s department received permission from county supervisors to shred potentially incriminating records, documents show.
It is unclear if any informant records were destroyed as a result of the unanimous vote by the Board of Supervisors on Dec. 16, 2014. It’s also unclea
Orange County officials, without public discussion, approved a controversial new policy last week allowing immediate destruction of public records, despite state law and a court ruling saying they must be kept for two years.
The updated rules, which supervisors approved on a 4-0 vote Sept. 10, lets officials immediately destroy records they believe are not “required by law or