They are waiting for enough time to pass that records will be "unfortunately" destroyed according to some conveniently required protocol. The system is fully rigged.

How about some food for thought and for the record, "Required Protocol" is required as mandated by state laws that cover records retention and the schedules they must adhere to. And, if you think about the required length of the records retention (time kept) vs. the amount of daily paperwork that is involved,(storage space) there is NOTHING convenient about it. As a matter of fact, there are also records you must keep forever, I kid you not!

Today, records are scanned and stored electronically. You can literally store a warehouse of documents on a storage drive that's about as big as a old yellow pages phone book (remember them?). And it takes almost no effort to back up (duplicate) this storage to multiple locations to make sure it is secure and cannot be deleted. Welcome to the 21st century.

In addition to being incredibly cheap, one of the nice things about electronic storage is that it can be indexed to dates, names, key word, subjects, addresses and key words. As such, in just a few nanoseconds, you can find documents - all documents - with a few key strokes.

This is pretty standard stuff for most private businesses today.

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Look for two people in the Atherton Police Department to take the fall. The one who falsified the report and the one who had the technical expertise to identify the culprit but used that technical experties to the opposite effect.

That's not taking the fall.

That's paying the price.

Listen up. If you you are interested in a constructive and meaningful resolution to the Buckheit case, you need to pay close attention to the fact that the the newly appointed "bridge"city manager who will be running things between now and the negotiation conference has been recruited from The Sequoia Healthcare District which has also recently absorbed ex Atherton Police Chief Glen Neilson who was at the helm when the Buckheit incident occurred. I had already been wondering if the Healthcare District (Horsley's outfit) had turned into a place to park public employees who were either owed favors or who had not outlived their usefulness. Watching the recruiter who found her for us, sitting with Cary Wiest at the last week council meeting made my hair stand on end. Looks like Atherton is determined to repeat itself in a very closed loop.

If this truly constitutes a conflict of interest, Mr. Buckheit's attorney can ask to have her excused.

It doesn't look like either party is ready to settle anyway and this interim manager will likely be gone by the time this gets to trial or real settlement discussions.

I wouldn't be overly concerned. Mr. Buckheit is in the driver's seat, not the town.

Pogo if you are interested in the Buckhiet case being worth a big fix for the county as well as Atherton you need to adjust you scope.

Thelma -

Perhaps you need to learn how civil litigation works.

Atherton's interim Town Manager will have no impact on the progress of this case.



EDITOR'S NOTE: I have reopened this thread but limited it to registered users.

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