The email was requesting private information about council staff such as their names and addresses. "My official response, as Mayor of Thames-Coromandel District Council, to your request for personal details of staff names and addresses, is this. Speaking to Stuff, Salt said he believed the email came from a person associated with Sovereign Citizens. "If people were to say this is not the language or decorum you expect from a mayor, I would take that criticism on the chin," Salt said. In a climate of increasing hostility towards elected representatives and their staff, I believe it was necessary."

Source: Stuff January 16, 2024 03:50 UTC