The Mercury News sued the City of San Jose on Wednesday, seeking to make public the details behind an October scandal where firefighters were seen dropping off a bikini-clad woman at the Pink Poodl…
The Mercury News sued the City of San Jose on Wednesday, seeking to make public the details behind an October scandal where firefighters were seen dropping off a bikini-clad woman at the Pink Poodle strip club.
So far, those documents have been kept hidden from the public despite repeated attempts by reporters and a media attorney to unearth them through records requests and communications with city attorneys. Although then-mayor Sam Liccardo called for “heads to roll” when the scandal broke, the city will offer no details about the nature of any discipline.
“You shouldn’t have to go to court to get these records,” said Loy bluntly. “This is a very substantial issue of misuse of city resources.”The suit comes two weeks after Fire Chief Robert Sapien released an April 25 memo to councilmembers in response to “significant public inquiries” about the incident. His two-page document offered just a sprinkling of details.
The firetruck then drove around the club, dropping off the woman at approximately 9:10 p.m. where she then walked through the doors of the Pink Poodle, a moment captured on video and shared widely on social media by an account called San Jose Foos. The caption of the video read, “Only in San Jose do you see a stripper come out of a firetruck.”
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