The leadership of the Children, Youth and Families Department (CYFD) has directed staff to use Signal, a secure communication app, and has set chats to automatically delete. In contrast to standard text messages or emails — which could be accessed by attorneys, reporters and members of the public under the state’s open records laws — messages sent via Signal are all but impossible to retrieve. Once deleted, virtually no trace of a Signal conversation remains, even on the company’s server.
-WiscoDave
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Sounds to me like they're destroying evidence.
I used to work for a local government entity. You could not destroy records, particularly emails as it is a violation of the Open Records Act. The best way to attack this is to get a copy of the document. Then, another party requests the same document via Open Records. When they say "no such record exists" you send a copy of the document to the State AG with a copy of their response which proves they are lying. The AG will then go after the governmental agency.
ReplyDelete“Transparency” is a word lefties and government employees like to throw around but rarely hold to that standard.
ReplyDeleteHillary taught them well.
DeleteSilly people. If y'all really want to recover those "secret" messages all ya gotta do is ask the NSA. They've got copies of EVERYTHING (decrypted, of course).
ReplyDeleteWell duh!!! How else do you expect them to get away with human sex trafficking for the elitist?
ReplyDeleteExactly this.
DeleteI once worked at a southern university (a state-controlled school) and a certain employee became unstable and was sending veiled threats to me and others in our department. It was quite evident that she had lost touch with reality and they ended up firing her. She hired an attorney based on a flimsy "whistleblower" accusation, and all of us in the department were contacted by the legal department and told NOT to delete any emails, and that they would be examining our email accounts. Bottom line, the evidence gathered pointed to a very unbalanced employee who deservedly was fired from her position. Last I heard, she had moved out west (New Mexico I think) to live.
ReplyDeleteSo this case of defiant record destroying will not end well for this department, I think.
I was told the Signal app is what drug dealers use to communicate with their clients and suppliers. It supports voice, video and text in one app.
ReplyDeleteNemo
There is a term for this...
ReplyDeleteNORMAL
My first response was outrage but careful reading doesn't make it absolutely clear that they are deleting anything more than "chats". What are "chats"? Are they the equivalent to text messages or e-mails? Not trying to defend the child welfare folks, but seeing how the media twists a lot of shit, I carefully parse everything I read.
ReplyDeleteChatting is how conspiracies happen. Network analysis is how you find possible conspiracies (and is the backbone of "evidence" used for Jan 6). The lack of official records of which officials chatted with who and when, preventing network analysis, irrespective of the chat content, is a smoking gun all by itself.
DeleteLike when the Tattnall County 911 records disappeared when a certain crime boss panicked and used 911 to re-route deputies that one time ...
“Improper destruction of public records is a fourth-degree felony”
ReplyDeleteSo fire then charge the assholes. Any entity of the state is subject to review - if it isn’t, that entity needs to be X’d out of existence.
The SS (Social Services, Children and Families, Department of Human Resources, Schutzstaffel, whatever name they use) routinely screws up and covers their tracks in the name of "protecting the children". They are the REAL enforcement arm of the "united" state(s). One quick google shows thousands of records of it. The only solution is transparency but that has been blocked since at least the early 80s during the "Satanic Ritual Abuse" witch hunt.
ReplyDeleteThose bumblebrats seem to be following the fine exemplary example set by our esteemed CivilServant lois (((lerner))) of the reputation-destroying destruction-through-procedure Internal Revenue Service.
ReplyDeleteYou might remember her from such hits as 'Get The Tea Party' and 'The NRA Are Terrorists'.
As I recall, lois refused to testify, citing her Fifth Amendment rights... thereby reinforcing the ability of our employees to 'flip the bird' at due process.