Deputy City Attomey
(4151 554 -4236
E-Mail Erenest.Llorente@sfgov.org
SAN FRANCISCO SURVIVAL MANUAL ON BEHALF OF DR. WAYNE LANIER V THE MAYOR'S
OFFICE COMPLAINT THE COMPLAINANT ALLEGES THE FOLLOWING FACTS:
On March 3, 2006, Dr. Wayne Lanier ("Lanicr") made a public records request for infornation from the
Mayor'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, Christian
Holmer, Editor of the San Francisco Survival Manual ("SFSM") on behalf of Lanier filed a complaint against
the 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 request
in a timely fashion due to a staff member assigned to handle public records requests leaving the office and that
no 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 by
Darlene Chiu (who also lost all of her records shortly before going to work for PG & E). This Departmental (In
this case the MOC) Shell Game with current, future and past employees.
Most of the last 4 months Mr. Arrellano has been \u201cgetting up to speed\u201d on this simple two part request
(four sentences in all).
Elective Organizational Restructuring (say in advance of an operations or management audit or subsequent public
records request for example) is another common tactics used to thwart obfuscate and deny legitimate and wholly
non-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 calendars
from 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 Joe
Arrellano (MOC) for Gavin Newsom (Mayor) by Close of Business Thursday November 9th . Never Arrived Say
they\u2019re working on it. Can we say Incremental Delivery COB (Close of Business \u2013 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 \u201cdeletion interval\u201d and could (or would) not confirm the
Mayors Calendaring software as other Department Heads willingly have.
The Mayor's Office is looking into how it can better retrieve materials that are public records. Arrcllano also
spoke of the privacy issues involving parties that arc not involved with the business of the City and County of
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