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Woods
Rachel Woods signs Community Transit's public records correspondence. She says things that her own agency's files say are not true. The score is below.
Public Records Officer, Community Transit
rachel woods is a liar.
Six statements she signed. Her own agency's files on the other side of every one. Two more that are technically true. Two admissions, in writing.
- She said · June 13, 2025 · 25-123
We are in receipt of your records request and are currently working on collecting responsive records. Due to the volume of records requests we are currently processing in our program and the scope of this request additional time is needed to locate the records.
The recordHer, the evening before, to counsel: "I still need to start the search." And: "This is the one that involves an employee with a protection order against the requester."
Receipt → - She said · July 15, 2025 · 11:47 am · 25-123
There were no Teams internal comms messages.
The recordShe uploaded a Teams screenshot to the same request at 10:53 am. Berman had emailed it to her July 10.
Receipt → - She said · July 15, 2025 · 25-123, Part 4
There are no records that are responsive to this part of the request.
The recordBerman to her, June 16: "an email redirect was put in place during this time and updated for emails received from email accounts used by Henk Meyers."
Receipt → - She said · November 25, 2025 · 25-197
We no longer have payment records prior to 2019 as they are past the record retention period.
The recordCommunity Transit produced the 2016 and 2017 payment history and check images under 26-132 in June and July 2026.
Receipt → - She said · December 8, 2025 · 4:04 pm · 25-123
Community Transit has completed its search for records responsive to this public records request and has provided you with all responsive records.
The recordIT that morning: "I think only Sam will be able to answer this." Sam never answered. The "Can we block all his emails?" email surfaced in 2026 under a different request.
Receipt → - She said · March 17, 2026 · 26-35
Call details are available for the full time period, in Excel for the 10/7/2025-3/7/2026 time period and PDF invoice format prior to that.
Technically true
Neither De Tapia nor Phil Tapia have or have had agency issued cell phones.
November 10, 2025. The IT Director signed agency email "253.███.5622 Mobile" for ten years.Microsoft Teams Chat is used for transitory messages at our agency and has an automatic 30-day retention period.
November 10, 2025. The 30-day policy was created July 31, 2025, eight weeks into this request.
Admissions
Trying to be smart so we do not capture all of De's emails for this time period.
December 22, 2025. In writing.I still need to start the search and will get that in motion tomorrow.
June 12, 2025. In writing.
In their
own words
There are no records that are responsive to this part of the request. However, the Senior Manager of Technology Infrastructure provided this statement: A Microsoft 365 Exchange redirect rule was put in place to redirect any messages coming from or about Henk Meyers to any CT employees to both my mailbox and a shared mailbox with Transit Security.
No record of it. Here is the record of it.
So, the 5 day is due tomorrow. This is the one that involves an employee with a protection order against the requester. Shall I push the due date out a few weeks while we work on collecting responsive records?
The next morning she told me it was the volume of requests.
Will do. I still need to start the search and will get that in motion tomorrow.
June 13: "currently working on collecting responsive records."
Microsoft Teams Chat is used for transitory messages at our agency and has an automatic 30-day retention period.
Berman told her about those chats on June 16. She said she was ready to collect them.
Neither De Tapia nor Phil Tapia have or have had agency issued cell phones.
The IT Director's agency signature says Mobile.
Please note that per the state retention email guidelines, emails are retained 6 years, these happen to be past retention but documents we still had in our possession.
Ten years old. Still had it.
Consulting on close.
Four hours later: "all records produced."