Houston Transit Official Denies Lawyers Were Fired for Objecting to Document Shredding
The chairman of the Houston-area transit system is denying that two agency lawyers were fired because they objected to the destruction of records involving top rail system officials.
Metro board chairman David Wolff “emphatically denied” that Metropolitan Transit Authority chief counsel Pauline Higgins and a second lawyer were fired because of the shredding, the Houston Chronicle reports.
Higgins’ lawyer, Rusty Hardin, says his client was fired because she raised concerns about the handling of an open-records request for the documents, the Houston Chronicle reports in a separate story.
Wolff said, however, that none of the destroyed records was subject to the open-records request.
A state judge has issued a restraining order barring further destruction of records.
