Senior DA: No Probe of Orders to Purge Anaheim Records
The Orange County district attorney's office will not investigate ongoing reports of records destruction at Anaheim City Hall unless employees contact the DA's office with evidence, declared Bill Feccia, senior assistant district attorney, declared late last week in an interview.
During the interview Feccia launched into a tirade against the media, saying he would be largely ignoring newspaper accounts on potentially criminal acts in Anaheim.
He said he vowed last year not to conduct investigations based on news stories after the DA initiated a probe after media reports about computer contracts awarded by Orange County Assessor Webster Guillory. Guillory ended up being cleared by the investigation.
"We don't do investigations on rumors, on anonymous sources, or on newspaper articles. If people have evidence — if there's evidence — then let them come forward, walk through our front door, and present us with that evidence. But the evidence that we've seen so far doesn't warrant an investigation on our part," Feccia said.
"I already spent six to eight months of my professional time last year chasing newspaper accounts on the assessor's office. I'm just not going to spend six to eight months of this year chasing ghosts."
Feccia's announcement comes after revelations of memos written by supervisors in Anaheim's Planning and Community Preservation departments ordering employees to purge emails and other correspondence. Experts on the state's records laws said the memos appear to ask employees to illegally destroy records.
The directives were especially egregious, experts said, because they came after Voice of OC filed a request under the California Public Records Act for communications between council members and various city departments.
"I'll put it like this: If it were the DA's office that made the [public records] request you made, and if that were followed by the kind of request [destruction of records] you're talking about there, I'm sure there would be a criminal investigation," said Terry Francke, general counsel for the open-government advocacy group Californians Aware.
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The Orange County district attorney's office will not investigate ongoing reports of records destruction at Anaheim City Hall unless employees contact the DA's office with evidence, Senior District Attorney Bill Feccia declared late last week in an
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