A transparency fight is headed straight for City Attorney Herrera — and someone's got receipts. Welcome to the San Francisco Daily Fix — I'm Cassidy, with Devin, and today we're digging into a public records showdown at City Hall that's landing on Dennis Herrera's desk. Petrelis Files broke this one — Michael Petrelis has been poking City Hall with a stick for twenty years, and when he files, people eventually have to answer. The question is whether Herrera's office defends the city's opacity or actually enforces the public's right to know — that's the whole ballgame here.
From Blogspot:
On May 15, I filed an immediate disclosure request (IDR) with Dorsey for all of his emails and work calender, both are public documents created with City infrastructure, since February 1. As always, I requested an acknowledgement that he had received the IDR but a reply didn't come.
This one comes from the Petrelis Files blog — Michael Petrelis has been a thorn in City Hall's side for decades, and he's filed an immediate disclosure request, or IDR, against City Attorney Dennis Herrera's office over emails that may show how deep Herrera's involvement went in promoting a New York Times reporter's book about the gay marriage movement. An IDR under the Sunshine Ordinance requires acknowledgment and response within ten days — that's not optional. When the response you get is 'Matt's not in and I can't access his email,' that's not an answer, that's a stall, and a sloppy one. To be fair, the record here is incomplete — we don't have the May 21st follow-up. But the pattern Petrelis is documenting, slow-walking a sunshine request from a public affairs office that exists specifically to communicate with the public, is not a great look for Herrera.
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