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shockedcanadian

(751 posts)
Tue Mar 31, 2015, 01:15 PM Mar 2015

The mayor of Saanich, B.C. suspected his own staff was spying on him — and he was right


http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/the-mayor-of-saanich-b-c-suspected-his-own-staff-was-spying-on-him-and-he-was-right/


Less than two weeks after being sworn in as mayor, Saanich Mayor Richard Atwell learned he was being spied upon.
A whistleblower sidled up to the rookie mayor at a community event, last December, and suggested the mayor’s own staff had bugged his municipal computer.


Distrustful of Saanich’s top bureaucrats — many of whom were loyal to the six-term incumbent that Atwell had just upset at the polls — the mayor of Vancouver Island’s largest municipality felt he had only one option left: Launch his own investigation.

Armed only with the recording app on his iPhone, Atwell began interviewing former and current staff in Saanich’s computer department. He approached one employee outside a local recreation centre, hoping to catch him away from his managers so he could speak freely. When the mayor tracked down the technician who’d installed the tracking software, he went to the man’s home on the employee’s day off to record their conversation....

It’s cold comfort for Atwell, a former Apple software engineer. His own council publicly portrayed him as a paranoid oddball and he became a national laughingstock in the two months after the spyware allegations became public.
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The mayor of Saanich, B.C. suspected his own staff was spying on him — and he was right (Original Post) shockedcanadian Mar 2015 OP
This is my mayor Rainforestgoddess Mar 2015 #1
They've sure been hostile to the poor guy arikara Apr 2015 #3
And of course the cops are involved... CanSocDem Mar 2015 #2
This is fairly local to me, and I smiled about this one. delrem Apr 2015 #4
 

CanSocDem

(3,286 posts)
2. And of course the cops are involved...
Tue Mar 31, 2015, 05:49 PM
Mar 2015


"Atwell has asked the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner to review Saanich police conduct, as well as the conduct of the regional traffic unit that has pulled him over four times without issuing any infractions."

delrem

(9,688 posts)
4. This is fairly local to me, and I smiled about this one.
Mon Apr 6, 2015, 01:09 AM
Apr 2015

I don't care so much about the mayor's policies as about the triumph of the process.
I think that's just fucking cool.

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