Morning Report: City Official: Ex-COO Didn’t Direct IT Staff to Purge Records

Morning Report: City Official: Ex-COO Didn’t Direct IT Staff to Purge Records

101 Ash St. / Photo by Adriana Heldiz Back in May, the City Attorney’s Office delivered a bombshell letter alleging that the city’s former chief operating officer ordered city Information Technology Department staff to delete 101 Ash St. records.

Yet the city’s top IT official testified under oath last week that he couldn’t confirm that his staff had been ordered to purge records, according to a draft transcript obtained by Voice of San Diego.

Our Lisa Halverstadt reports that Jonathan Behnke, the city’s chief information officer, said instead that he believes former top city bureaucrat Kris Michell’s request that her assistant […]

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