They have a new wicked witch in charge of withholding public records: One with a particularly condescending and rude attitude. Ms Anna Pankovich, city accounting tech turned Deputy City Clerk… I wonder what one has to do to attain that “title”
But the city doesn’t want to give up it’s records so they will continue to play these games, it’s what they do…
Her snotty little attitude fits right in with the city of Everett, and her snide little comments about “I have a long history of making large PRA requests and refusing to pay or abandoning them” She doesn’t happen to mention that they do everything in their power to make sure I can not afford some of them, or that they never number the requests, or that the last “record” they sent contained 102 of the same exact email.
This is what anyone who tries to get records goes through and don’t you dare fight back or they will charge you with some kind of a crime as well. That is what they do.
I think it’s time to bring the focus back on to the city of Everett once again.
We’ve cleaned up a good deal of Snohomish County but these little pustules of corruption and egos seem to need some Sunshine
Public Disclosure Requests
Ms. Taamu,
The City’s emails on November 9 and November 19 clearly distinguish between your two pending requests and make it clear that you needed to make payments on both requests or they will be treated as abandoned. Even if you were confused about which deadline applied to which request, you knew you had the two outstanding requests and thus should have known you had outstanding payments for installments due on both requests. Yet you did not seek clarification or make payment on either request. The City waited for an additional week past the second deadline to give you a chance to make payment, but you did nothing.
Moreover, you have a long history of making large PRA requests and then failing to pay for installments and abandoning those requests. You have also repeatedly complained that the substance of the records that have been provided, and thus it would not be surprising if you did abandon your requests again.
Accordingly, the City stands by its decisions to treat these two requests as abandoned.
You are, however, free to remake your requests. Therefore, the City will treat your email below as remaking those prior requests.
To avoid future confusion, below I was restate what requests the City currently has from you and provide you with the tracking number for each request for future reference.
If the description below does not describe what you believe you are requesting, please provide further clarification using the tracking numbers to avoid confusion.
For each request, I also need clarification regarding paper records. For prior requests, you have stated that you do not want to have to pay for per-page scanning costs and thus only want records that are already in electronic format. Thus, paper records are excluded from your request. Moreover, because the City must print records to hand-redact those records, you requests have also excluded any electronic records that need redactions.
The City will assume this limitation applies to all three of your pending requests below. If you do not intend it to apply to one or more of your requests, specifically identify which request the qualification does not apply to, using the tracking numbers below.
Finally, I have included additional clarification questions for specific requests below.
1. PRA request 15-422, received by the City on November 11
You have requested the following categories of record:
1. “any and all records relating to [Brandia Taamu]” for the last five years
2. “all records relating to [Brandia Taamu] [that] are set aside and saved for litigation” for the last five years
3. “every single email [Brandia Taamu has] sent to the city of Everett” for the last five years
4. “all emails [and all phone calls faxes or handwritten/typed correspondence] that detail how [the City is] going to answer or not answer [Brandia Taamu’s] public records requests in email PST format with all metadata attached.”
5. “all copies of any discovery that was given to [Brandia Taamu] or [her] council [sic] and a list of the jurors”
6. “copy of the disclosure of Rose Adams prior criminal history that might’ve have been given to [Brandia Taamu’s] council [sic] or [Brandia Taamu] with proof that it was given to either one”
7. “digital copy of the photos that were taken the day [Brandia Taamu’s] animals were taken from [her] with all of the metadata attached”
8. “a report on the welfare of [Brandia Taamu’s] animals”
Clarification questions.
All emails send by Brandia Taamu would be included in all records “related to” Brandia Taamu, and therefore, the City will include any records responsive to item 3 in the records responsive to item 1. Please provide clarification if you disagree.
2. Request 15-462 (remade after abandonment on December 8, 2015)
You have requested “all emails, text messages and phone records for the following persons for the specific date ranges indicated after each name”:
Name
Date Range
Note
1.
Laura Van Slyke
11/1/10 to 10/24/14
App’t to Muni Court 01/01/2014
2.
Mike Fisher
11/1/10 to 10/24/14
3.
Lori Trask
11/1/10 to 10/24/14
Former employee
4.
Shannon (Delgado) Johnson
11/1/10 to 10/24/14
Former employee
5.
James D Iles
11/1/10 to 10/24/14
6.
Ron Gipson
11/1/10 to 10/24/14
7.
Brenda Stonecipher
11/1/10 to 10/24/14
8.
Shannon Affholter
11/1/10 to 10/24/14
Former councilmember
9.
Drew Neilson
11/1/10 to 10/24/14
Deceased
10.
Kate Reardon
11/1/10 to 10/24/14
Former employee
11.
Paul Roberts
11/1/10 to 10/24/14
12.
Jeff Moore
11/1/10 to 10/24/14
13.
Scott Bader
11/1/10 to 10/24/14
14.
Debra Bryant
11/1/10 to 10/24/14
15.
Hil Kaman
11/1/10 to 10/24/14
16.
Leslie Tidball
11/1/10 to 10/24/14
17.
Brie Hopkins
11/1/10 to 10/24/14
Former employee
18.
Teresa Cox
11/1/10 to 10/24/14
Former employee
19.
Mayor Stephanson
1/6/11 to 1/6/15
20.
Tam Moen
1/6/11 to 1/6/15
Former employee
21.
David Hall
1/6/11 to 1/6/15
22.
Ramsey Ramerman
1/6/11 to 1/6/15
23.
Kathy Attwood
1/6/11 to 1/6/15
Former employee
24.
David Fudge
1/6/11 to 1/6/15
25.
Deborah Wright
1/6/11 to 1/6/15
26.
Lanie McMullin
1/6/11 to 1/6/15
27.
Greg Lineberry
1/6/11 to 1/6/15
28.
Christina Wiersma
1/6/11 to 1/6/15
29.
Off. Robert Franklin
1/6/11 to 1/6/15
Former employee
30.
Mel Murphy
1/6/11 to 1/6/15
31.
David Mitchell
11/1/10 to 10/24/14
Former court employee – records not subject to PRA
32.
Timothy O’Dell
11/1/10 to 10/24/14
Court employee – records not subject to PRA
33.
Katie Traenkenschuch
11/1/10 to 10/24/14
Court employee – records not subject to PRA
34.
Cheryl Byer
11/1/10 to 10/24/14
Not City employee
35.
G. Geoffrey Gibbs
11/1/10 to 10/24/14
Not City employee
36.
June Thompson
1/6/11 to 1/6/15
Not City employee
37.
Igrid Weaver
1/6/11 to 1/6/15
Not City employee
38.
Erin Wyse
1/6/11 to 1/6/15
Not City employee
Note, the City will not be providing records for any of the non-employees or court employees.
3. Request 15-463 (remade on December 8, 2015 after abandonment)
All records from December 24, 2010 to June 21, 2015 that are related to you or that refer to any of the following terms or animals:
1. “Finally home Rescue”
2. “finallyhomerescue@yahoo.com”
3. “Scncoreporter”
4. “Animallawnewsandabuse”
5. “Snohomishcountycorruption”
6. Dogs previously owned by you named “Hoki”, “Soffia”, “Misty”, “Taz”, “George” or “Libby”
Note, it would appear that all of these documents would be responsive to item 1 in request 15-422 above. Thus, we will provide any records responsive to this request as part of the response to PDR 15-422 unless you provide additional clarification regarding the scope of this request. Absent that clarification you will not receive records referencing this tracking number.
From: SnoCo Reporter [mailto:brandia@snocoreporter.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2015 4:09 PM
To: Public Disclosure; president; zamboni_john; Carol DeCoursey; cdiemond; jilljfleck; Bill Scheidler
Subject: Re: Public Disclosure Request – 15-214 AND 15-213The request is not closed, this is the first time you have put a # to this request instead of playing games and telling one thing is ready and sending me something else.
15-214 & 15-213
Are not closed and until you tell me what I owe you can not claim that I have abandoned anything. I have not abandoned my requests. I have all of your emails with the metadata captured.
Please send me an invoice as to what I owe for each and when you expect my next installment to be ready. I also know for a fact that you have the entire request ready for everyone because Tam sent an email laying out what was ready the last time this game was played.
On December 8, 2015 at 12:55 PM Public Disclosure <PublicDisclosure@everettwa.gov> wrote:
Ms. Taamu,
As of today, December 8, 2015, the City of Everett did not received your payment toward your public disclosure request number 15-214, for emails, phone or voice messages, texts, etc. for a variety of city employees, therefore the City treats your request as abandoned and closed.
Ms. Taamu,
As of today, December 8, 2015, the City of Everett did not received your payment toward your public disclosure request number 15-213, for records where you are named, therefore the City treats your request as abandoned and closed.
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