The City of New Orleans has filed a lawsuit against the Louisiana Technology Council, the firm hired to perform a forensic audit to locate Mayor Ray Nagin’s missing e-mails.
The city asked for a temporary restraining order and permanent injunction.
The LTC was fired July 3 for violating the city’s confidentiality agreement, after Mark Lewis and Christopher Reade went public on July 1 with their findings by holding a press conference, officials from city contend.
The LTC denies the claim that they violated the agreement.
"The City of New Orleans has sought an injunction against the Louisiana Technology Council for one simple reason -- it has no assurance that LTC returned a complete copy of the City's confidential data and destroyed all other copies of data created by LTC or its subcontractors. It also cannot confirm whether this confidential data was shared with any third parties," said City Attorney Penya Moses-Fields.
“We have no data,” said Lewis. “We gave all of that data back to them when we had a meeting with them early last week.”
Reade said at the press conference that mayor’s e-mails had been deleted intentionally by someone who had access to the server and had a high level of computer knowledge and technical expertise.
"LTC signed a nondisclosure agreement that prohibited it from disclosing any information about its work. Mr. Lewis and his subcontractor, Mr. Reade, violated that agreement when they chose to discuss the preliminary findings of their forensic audit -- an audit they now admit was flawed," said Moses-Fields
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Source: wwltv.com
By: Michael Luke
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