Harbor City Proponents Sue for Records’ Release
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Charging that the city of Los Angeles has stonewalled in turning over documents important to secession studies, proponents of Harbor area cityhood filed a lawsuit Friday to force the release of the records.
The Harbor Study Foundation filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles County Superior Court seeking an order to force Mayor Richard Riordan and other city officials to turn over the records, including business tax data, legal descriptions of the city’s port, and revenue reports on gas and oil pipelines.
The lawsuit asks the court to order the city to deliver the documents within 10 days.
City officials denied dragging their feet, saying instead that they have made a good-faith effort to deliver data, but that sometimes it is not easily attainable.
“We’ve given them everything we have got,” said Ellen Sandt of the city Office of Administrative Research.
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