Seattle mayor sued over missing text messages related to summer protests

Published June 7, 2021 6:00pm ET



Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan is being sued by the Seattle Times for allegedly mishandling public records concerning the city’s handling of last summer’s protests against police brutality.

The lawsuit was filed in King County Superior Court on Thursday and concerns text messages sent from Durkan’s city-issued iPhone between Aug. 2019 and June 25, 2020. That timeframe includes the period in which mass protests began in Seattle following the killing of George Floyd on May 25. A whistleblower complaint filed against the mayor’s office last month alleges they were not retained.

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