Portland pays $167,000 to settle lawsuit over Mayor Ted Wheeler’s text messages

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Portland pays $167,000 to settle lawsuit over Mayor Ted Wheeler’s text messages

The Portland City Council has agreed to pay nearly $167,000 to settle a 2022 lawsuit that accused the city and Mayor Ted Wheeler of withholding thousands of text messages from a public records request.The lawsuit followed an OPB investigation that found Wheeler and other city officials regularly broke city policy by communicating via iMessage on their city-issued iPhones. At the time, the public records software the city used to archive all text…