Community activist Ted Smith suspected backroom dealing at  San Jose City
Hall.

San Jose’s former mayor was asking the City Council for government money to
help develop a project downtown. Smith filed a public records request for
all communications related to the development from elected officials and
their staff.

The city responded, providing some records but maintaining that emails,
texts and other communications sent by government employees on their
private devices were not covered by the California Public Records Act.

Nearly eight years later, the downtown project is complete, helped in part
by city funds approved by elected San Jose officials. Smith never received
the communications he sought.


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