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#1 KevinKorell

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Posted 20 September 2016 - 01:29 AM

Seattle, WA Times, 9/19/16:

Sound Transit broke law by sharing ORCA users email addresses, watchdog agencys staff finds


Sound Transit violated state elections law when it released nearly 173,000 protected email addresses of ORCA transit cardholders to the campaign promoting the $54 billion ballot measure to expand light rail, a staff investigation by the states campaign-finance watchdog has found.

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Posted 20 October 2016 - 09:43 PM

The  Seattle Times, 10/19:
 

 

Sound Transit won’t face legal action from Attorney General’s Office over release of email addresses

 

The state Attorney General’s Office said Wednesday it won’t pursue legal action against Sound Transit for the agency’s improper release of ORCA cardholders’ email addresses to the campaign promoting a ballot measure to expand regional light rail.

 

 

 

The state Attorney General’s Office said Wednesday it won’t pursue legal action against Sound Transit for the agency’s improper release of nearly 173,000 ORCA cardholders’ email addresses this year to the campaign promoting a ballot measure to expand regional light rail.

 

In a letter to Conner Edwards, a Tacoma political consultant who lodged a formal complaint against the transit authority, Senior Assistant Attorney General Linda A. Dalton wrote that Sound Transit’s release of restricted email information to the political campaign appeared to be a mistake made during the routine course of the agency’s response to a public-records request.

 

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