METRO Shreddergate (03/04/2010 update)
KHOU-11'S MARK GREENBLATT has a METRO Shreddergate update:
Texas officials say the troubled transit authority has failed to follow a state records and documents preservation law.
That statute requires local government agencies to tell the state how long they will keep public records before destroying them. Officials with the Texas State Library and Archives Commission say Metro has failed to comply with state law since 1991.
Rusty Hardin, counsel for Pauline Higgins (the attorney recently fired by METRO), told Greenblatt that Higgins was fired for trying to push METRO's management to comply with the state law.
METRO, which fulfilled a recent Chronicle public information request on its document retention policies on the same day*, did not respond to Greenblatt's request for comment, according to the story.
BLOGVERSATION: Houblog, Harris County Almanac.
* When does THAT ever happen? Perhaps being a METRO cheerleading outfit for years does have its benefits.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 03/04/10 07:44 AM | Print |
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