Brewer asks about chief counsel memo banning Signal and OME's communication tools
Brewer asks about a January memo from the mayor's chief counsel telling mayoral agencies not to use Signal; Van Auken says OME does not use Signal and communicates via city email, phones, and Teams chats, while Brewer notes the memo went out to everyone.
And now back to signals.
I understand that in January, the head of the chief counsel to the mayor.
Said to all mayoral agencies, do not use signal.
Do you know anything about that memo?
Have you paid any attention to it?
Or that wouldn't be under you.
That would be under the other office of communications.
If you guys don't use signal, is that correct?
We do not use signal as an office.
So how do you communicate with your many offices?
In other words, you've got to...
All the people you're engaging with.
That's a good question.
We use our city email, our city phones, our city teams chats.
Okay.
So you know it's my understanding that that memo did go out to everybody, so it's kind of strange that we're all using Signal for communication.
We can use it for other things.
I will now call on Minority Leader Carr and then Public Advocate Williams to ask questions.