Thousands of text messages sent by Portland mayor’s government phone went missing
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Thousands of Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler’s text messages from 2017 to 2021 went messing, most likely due to a phone setting issue which Wheeler said he was not aware of.
OPB's investigation found the mayor and his staff sent and received thousands of iMessage texts between 2017 and 2021 and those messages were not captured — and therefore not included — in key public records requests about the protests, policing and other issues.
Users can turn iMessage off and instead send texts outside Apple's proprietary system by toggling a button in the iPhone's settings. Wheeler and other city officials signed a document saying they understood they must toggle iMessage to the off position and Wheeler was repeatedly reminded of that, OPB reported.
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