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Q: I filed a code violation complaint in 2005 because of hoarding and abandoned vehicles on a neighbor’s easement.  Many things have transpired since but I cannot get an answer to why the County did not simply warn the owner; clean up and bill him as muni. code states & as building inspector has told me is normally the case. This is a mentally ill individual who has many restraining orders against him by County

Q: My newspaper has had difficulty accessing City emails via public records requests. Our city has a written policy of only making available email from the city server (city manager, city finance director, etc.) for a 30 day time period from the date of the submission of the public record request. PRA requests are repeatedly denied for documents (specifically email) outside the 30-day window even though that email still exists on city servers and are