Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson is suing his city attorney and local newspapers to keep confidential e-mail exchanges between himself and lawyers. Johnson claims lawyer-client privilege. The newspapers are trying to investigate Johnson’s involvement with two national organizations of black mayors. (AllGov, July 6, 2015, by Ken Broder)
A Superior Court judge gave Johnson and the parties to the lawsuit a week to work out a solution. The city attorney was poised to release the e-mail records under the California Public Records Act. (Courthouse News Service, July 2, 2015, by Nick Cahill)
Coincidentally, a Sacramento watchdog group is suing to prevent the destruction of correspondence two years or older that city officials have labelled “irrelevant” to the public record. Eye on Sacramento wants any records targeted for deletion released to the public. (Sacramento Bee, July 6, 2015, by Marissa Lang)