Someone in Brookside deleted the police department’s emails, according to attorneys for a group of drivers suing the town over allegations of ticketing for profit.
It’s unclear exactly who deleted the account, said attorney Jaba Tsitsuashvili. But, regardless, the drivers are asking a federal judge to hold Brookside responsible for it.
“There’s a lot of finger-pointing and cross-recriminations here, but I think what it boils down to is that Brookside is responsible for this email deletion,” said Tsitsuashvili of the Institute for Justice, a libertarian nonprofit based in Virginia. “We’re confident that the judge will understand that the town deleted four years worth of police policy emails after the town had already been sued several times for its police policies.”…