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12,000 e-mails to review in probe of Spokane mayor
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| Contributor | Ralphie |
| Last Edited | Ralphie Jun 25, 2005 10:49am |
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| Media | Newspaper - Seattle Times |
| News Date | Saturday, June 25, 2005 04:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A panel that will decide whether Mayor Jim West violated city policies in his dealings with young men he met in a gay chat room plans to read tens of thousands of pages of e-mail.
Retired Spokane County Superior Court Judge Harold "Pete" Clarke will chair the panel appointed by City Attorney Mike Connelly. The committee, which met for an organizational session yesterday, will report to the City Council and deputy mayor.
The panel will seek a fifth member after Tom Trulove, an Eastern Washington University professor, decided not to serve for personal reasons.
The city panel can review documents and interview employees to determine whether West committed acts or omissions through computer use or hiring practices that violated city policies or laws, Clarke said.
Connelly said there were about 12,000 mayoral e-mails, but media requests for copies of the documents cover between 50,000-60,000 pages.
Besides Clarke, committee members include retired judge Philip Thompson, university professor Michael Stebbins and private lawyer Nancy Isserlis.
Stebbins and Isserlis were out of town, but joined the panel by teleconference yesterday. |
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