Santa Clara Valley Water District has won its lawsuit against one of its directors who took thousands of pages of internal documents.
Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Ellen E. Williams has ordered Valley Water Director Rebecca Eisenberg to return a roughly 2,000-page report to Valley Water officials within five days. The report was the product of an investigation into allegations about Eisenberg’s behavior. She was censured and stripped of some of her responsibilities by her board colleagues for removing the documents without permission from the agency’s office.
Eisenberg declined to comment on the order to return the documents, but said the lawsuit has been used to defame her as well as distract from other pressing issues facing Valley Water, such as the Pacheco Dam project. The project’s cost estimate rose to about $5.5 billion in February and Eisenberg has questioned whether the project’s costs are being misrepresented.
“I am going to tough it out to help bring justice to the community,” Eisenberg told San José Spotlight. “This lawsuit is a red herring, it is a distraction.”