Tomorrow’s City Council Work Session incluydes executive session item 7, titled “Complaint regarding elected City Official – Matter No. HQ # 1453 (551.071)(551.074),” with outside counsel Frank Garza attending.
While we cannot be 100% certain, we believe the item in question concerns City Rep. Henry Rivera of District 7.
According to Martin Paredes of El Paso News, Rivera’s wife Dora Oaxaca-Rivera is accused of gaining access to confidential files from a City computer, of accessing confidential information from Executive Sessions, and of impersonating her husband in her email correspondence with the City Attorney’s Office.
If this is true, there may be a violation of Section 33.02(b) of Texas law, which states that breach of computer security is a “state jail felony if the computer, computer network, or computer system is owned by the government or a critical infrastructure facility.”
Did Rep. Rivera knowingly grant his wife access to his computer and did she help herself to confidential information?
The last we heard, back in September, the City Council accepted the preliminary findings of the investigation of Rivera and directed the City Manager “to arrange for the conduct of further investigation with a broadened scope.”
We are guessing that tomorrow is the day when the results of that “further investigation” will be presented to the full City Council.
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