Opacity, compartmentalization and self-dealing. SWNI seems to be focused on making themselves as insular as possible as the city looks to pay them for it.
SWNI Doubles Down, Becomes More Opaque
Category: Transparency
SWNI Seeks to Rebrand, Not Fix Past Behaviors
To paraphrase a famous video game quote: SWNI. SWNI never changes. This story should have been out days ago, but the longer I’ve worked on this story, the more documents I get, and the more amazed and frustrated I become. In the course of a week I’ve received a distilled version of what many others […]
Court Wrap-Up, Jan 10, the Transparency Files
As I said Friday night when I posted my last wrap-up, I was going to tackle the government transparency lawsuits separately because of just how much was going on. I promised Sunday, so here we are! The first case we look at is Buel v. Caballero, a case where the City Auditor is getting sued […]
Court Wrap Up, December 1, 2020
With the ‘holiday’ weekend, there haven’t been too many changes in court cases, but I’m still trying to keep up on stuff. One case that I spoke about last week, the case of retired Officer Hollins suing the city for racial discrimination, has narrowly avoided him taking a default judgement against the city when at […]
Court Case Wrap Up, Nov 24
Another week or so, and another slew of updates in court cases. I’ve had a bout of something wrong between medication issues and time changes so I haven’t been able to pay as much attention as I should have the last few days. Thankfully, court records are somewhat eternal. So without further delay, let’s go […]
Schmidt versus the Patriot Prayer
This analysis was requested by a reader on Twitter, and it has been a case that I’ve wanted to get a better handle on, but with everything on my plate, I haven’t had the time and energy to get fully into the weeks. As such, this is a first blush, and there may be corrections […]
Court Case Wrap Up, Nov 13
This week has been a lot of self-recovery and time in bed (still not sure what I got hit with. Not sick, just -incredibly- tired). But some things have been happening in recent days and here’s you’re catch up. In the Montgomery v. Portland case, where Mr. Montgomery alleges he was tackled multiple times by […]