Lawsuit claims San Jose mayor violated public records laws
Associated PressA lawsuit against the city of San Jose and Mayor Sam Liccardo alleges he used a private email account to do city business in secret to skirt public records laws. In one email, the mayor of California’s third-largest city referred a conversation to his personal account and wrote: “I’m going to delete this from my public account,” the lawsuit alleges. Between December 2020 and May 2021, the San Jose Spotlight requested public records on a variety of city matters and conversations between Liccardo and lobbyists, constituents and others. “We uncovered how the mayor almost exclusively used his private email to do city business and deleted a public email thread.” The California Supreme Court unanimously ruled in 2017 that government employees and elected officials’ emails or text messages on private electronic devices about public business are subject to California’s public records law.
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