I stumbled upon this. From what I can tell Malvern Borough released information on employees, former employees, police or someone Malvern Borough was using did?
The Borough Council meetings don’t seem to have comprehensive recordings so I can’t view them for myself. But apparently they have been a free for all full of explosive behavior and George Carlin’s 7 dirty curse words.
I spoke to Bill Rettew. He doesn’t actually decide what stories run. His editor does. And The Daily Local is an eviscerated newspaper owned by a hedge fund which doesn’t really give a crap about any of the papers they own. So whomever CMR Concerned Malvern Residents are, maybe try NOT acting like a bunch of loons. There is other media in the area other than the Daily Local. Go to investigative reporters at 3/6/10/29 but be advised even if reporters talk to you, their is zero guarantee that their producers or station manager will let them run with the story. Same with The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Magazine as far as the editors go and what the writers can do.
And whatever this is, actually it does seem ugly and although I am being pretty fair with this post, I will undoubtedly get hate messages and comments. To which I say STFU y’all wanted this out there didn’t you?
The sad thing is these people raising the alarm on this are NOT wrong. They aren’t. These leaks can be as bad as hackers stealing data. If this truly happened, no matter how brief the exposure was, these people should be offered year of Experian or LifeLock monitoring.
Do I believe anyone’s lives are at risk? Honestly no, but if some of those people are law enforcement I am also not qualified to comment either way.
If this incident really happened, Malvern Borough should own it. They should publicly state what happened, what they did, and what any consequences might be or should be. Maybe it was no harm, no foul in the end. But there should be public answers to this, I do agree with that 100%.
But CNR Concerned Malvern Residents need to know how to behave. They are lucky they haven’t been ejected from meetings, or maybe they have. Who knows. But what they are trying to say is getting lost in bad behavior. In the end if they don’t hone their message all people will remember is they screamed at public meetings.
Maybe it is also time for Malvern Borough to be more sunshine friendly and record their meetings and load them on YouTube. Any 5th grader can show them how.
I can’t comment on whether or not the Malvern Borough Manager should be removed and any of the Borough Council or the Mayor. Again, given the lack of transparency as far as zero found meeting recordings and other things makes it hard to decide in an educated and informed matter.
And whomever it was on Borough Council who basically said they had never heard of the F.O.P. or whatever, I only have this to say: COME ON MAN. SO DUMB.
Have a good evening.
I appreciate that you shed light on local issues with your blog. I thought I might answer some of the questions you posed. It is true Malvern did not have recordings. As of last night’s meeting, meeting recordings will be publicly available for 90 days from the post date. Last night’s meeting has been posted. The CMR group chose to slice and dice their recording to make a particular point, namely that Malvern Borough Council is unapologetic and refuses to comply with transparency laws. If the full recording were available, you would have learned that Malvern Borough did own the mistake and offered all employees a year of LifeLock monitoring. (I believe it is LifeLock but could be another monitoring service like that.) You would also have learned that the recipient, a non-partisan municipal watch dog, assured the borough in less than 24 hours that all copies of the document had been destroyed. It was in their best interest to do so because having that information would have been a liability for them. CMR has been coming to the MBC meetings for months. Some members shout and curse at council and repeatedly call the president, Brendan, Brandon despite being corrected repeatedly. I’m assuming CMR released these videos to you in hopes of you covering the story. I guess they didn’t release the last post in which they called the MBC cockroaches. I know you called their behavior out, but publicizing this blog without getting information from a non-CMR source fans the fires of incivility that have plagued the MBC meetings for too long and are expected to go on for the foreseeable future. I am writing this off-the-record to provide context for your post.
The videos were on Facebook. They didn’t release anything to me. I will look for the other video.