OFFICE OF THE CITY ATTORNEYERNEST H. LLORENTEDeputy City Attomey(4151 554 -4236E-Mail Erenest.Llorente@sfgov.orgSAN FRANCISCO SURVIVAL MANUAL ON BEHALF OF DR. WAYNE LANIER V THE MAYOR'SOFFICE COMPLAINT THE COMPLAINANT ALLEGES THE FOLLOWING FACTS:On March 3, 2006, Dr. Wayne Lanier ("Lanicr") made a public records request for infornation from theMayor's calendar and any and all information relating to the drafting and passage of Ordinance Section 179-05.1,anier made numerous follow up requests, by e-mail for the same information. On October 20, 2006, ChristianHolmer, Editor of the San Francisco Survival Manual ("SFSM") on behalf of Lanier filed a complaint againstthe Mayors office alleging that the Mayor's Office failed to release the documents that Lanier requested.THE RESPONDENT AGENCY STATES THE FOLI.OWING:On November 14. 2006, Joseph Arrellano ("Arrellano"), representative from the Mayor's Office. appeared before the Complaint Committee. Arrellano stated that the Mayor's Office did not respond to the March requestin a timely fashion due to a staff member assigned to handle public records requests leaving the office and thatno one handled the requests for several months.
(SFSM Response in the Text of E-Mail Posting in Which this Searchable PDF Resides)
This complaint has been handled by every member of the MOC. The Chief of Staffs Office etc.Francisco Castillo (Arrellanos predecessor) was only one of them. Before that it had also been handled byDarlene Chiu (who also lost all of her records shortly before going to work for PG & E). This Departmental (Inthis case the MOC) Shell Game with current, future and past employees.Most of the last 4 months Mr. Arrellano has been “getting up to speed” on this simple two part request(four sentences in all).Elective Organizational Restructuring (say in advance of an operations or management audit or subsequent publicrecords request for example) is another common tactics used to thwart obfuscate and deny legitimate and whollynon-burdensome requests for Existing Electronic Records Which Take No Staff Time To Create. Find, Point,Click, Send.Arrellano stated that the Office is now responding to the Lanier request, "Me Office has provided calendars for the period of March 3, 2006 through July 13, 2006 and is in the process of compiling and reviewing the calendarsfrom July 14, 2006 to November 6, 2006.(SFSM Response in the Text of E-Mail Posting in Which this Searchable PDF Resides)This Supplemental Calendar submission was promised to us by Frank Darby (SOTF Admin) on behalf of JoeArrellano (MOC) for Gavin Newsom (Mayor) by Close of Business Thursday November 9
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. Never Arrived Saythey’re working on it. Can we say Incremental Delivery COB (Close of Business – Not Clerk of the Board ;-)).Arrellano stated that the Mayor's calendar is electronically maintained that self deletes after a certain period of time.(SFSM Response in the Text of E-Mail Posting in Which this Searchable PDF Resides)But Mr Arrellano could not specify the period of the “deletion interval” and could (or would) not confirm theMayors Calendaring software as other Department Heads willingly have.
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