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De Tapia runs Community Transit's IT department. The agency's own search logic is the most interesting document about her.

Director of Information Technology, Community Transit

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de tapia is corrupt.

My opinion, and the 6 documents it is based on. Every quote is theirs. Every receipt links to the source.

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  1. HR told her · August 15, 2017 · 25-197Neither you nor anyone under your oversight may have any involvement, directly or indirectly in the bid process or administration of any contract between Community Transit and Tapia Productions.
    The record

    Community Transit paid her husband's companies $1,340,317.80, 2015 to 2024, per its own payment export. The payee changed its name to Chaos Theory Studios in 2022. Same purchase orders.

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  2. She wrote · February 2, 2024 · 25-197https://www.chaostheory.com/ Phil would like to chat with you
    The record

    Sent from her Community Transit account, signed "Director - IT," to an outside contact.

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  3. She wrote · May 31, 2025 · 1:16 pm · 25-168Hi Ann, looks like emails from him are still coming through to me on work email. Can we block all his emails?
    The record

    By June 5 her IT manager was writing her about "the addresses we are blocking" and his "evidence folder."

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  4. She wrote · June 16, 2025 · 10:28 am · 25-168I have an upcoming hearing and would like to request all emails from May 29th and June to date sent to me and anyone else in the agency from any of these email addresses
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    Agency IT pulled them for her the same day: "I will be FTP'ing them to the requestor. Time spent, 1 hour." Her hearing. Public payroll.

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  5. The agency said · November 10, 2025 · 25-123Neither De Tapia nor Phil Tapia have or have had agency issued cell phones.
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    Her agency email signature, 2015 through June 2025: "253.███.5622 Mobile." Request 26-35 redacted 400 of 441 rows of that phone's log as personal.

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  6. Records staff wrote · December 22, 2025 · 25-197Trying to be smart so we do not capture all of De's emails for this time period.
    The record

    The search for her husband's contracts never used her name, his name, or the word "husband."

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In their
own words

May 31, 2025 · 1:16 pmto Ann Dowty
Hi Ann, looks like emails from him are still coming through to me on work email. Can we block all his emails?

Produced in 2026. Not under the request that asked for it.

June 16, 2025 · 10:28 amto Rachel Woods
I have an upcoming hearing and would like to request all emails from May 29th and June to date sent to me and anyone else in the agency from any of these email addresses

Blocked on May 31. Collected on June 16.

August 15, 2025Request 25-123, the agency's Part 1 search terms
Any emails, memos, reports, or internal communications referencing: Phil Tapia, Henk Meyers, [email protected] in connection with either individual.
Same document
All emails and teams between: Phil Tapia & De Tapia

The agency built the search around the connection. Then dropped it from Part 3.

November 10, 2025Request 25-123
Neither De Tapia nor Phil Tapia have or have had agency issued cell phones.

Her own agency signature: 253.███.████ Mobile. Request 26-35 redacted 400 of 441 rows of that phone's log as personal.

On the vendor contracts: Tapia Productions and Chaos Theory Studios were paid $1,340,317.80 by Community Transit alone. The fuller tally across agencies is on LTFY.

Rachel Woods→Michael Berman→Matthew Hendricks→