Disapproving Characterization

Pub date April 26, 2007
SectionPolitics Blog

by Amanda Witherell

We just got this letter from Matt Dorsey. He didn’t like the way we talked about the city attorney’s office and their love/hate relationship with metadata. Sorry Matt! You know we love your sunshiney attitude.

Press Secretary Dorsey writes:

For the record, I forcefully disagree with Amanda Witherell’s characterization that this office’s Sept. 19, 2006 memorandum represents a scenario in which “the city attorney’s office in San Francisco has strongly advised against releasing public documents that may contain metadata.”

A thorough perusal of this public memorandum should prove my point convincingly.

Matt convinces, after the jump…