When The Times requested copies of emails Angel and others might have sent from their official Sheriff's Department accounts containing a list of potentially racist or sexist terms, McDonnell was personally involved in deciding how to respond to the newspaper's request, according to testimony taken in a lawsuit that the paper filed in 2016. The Sheriff's Department hired an outside firm to do the search, which quoted The Times nearly $7,000 to produce the records, a fee that is more than 10 times what the county usually charges, the testimony showed.

Source: Los Angeles Times March 21, 2018 22:18 UTC