Spotted on KHOU:

Shortly before KHOU broke the initial reports of document-shredding, Metro fired its general counsel, Pauline Higgins, as well as another staff attorney, Jakki Hansen. Another staff attorney voluntarily left the agency the same day KHOU’s first story aired. Metro said no other employees from the legal department have left the agency since February 1, 2010.

However, the exodus from the agency continues. A Metro spokesperson confirmed yet another senior manager has left the agency, just two days after it disclosed shredding had taken place. George Smalley confirmed in a written statement that David Feeley, the Senior Vice President of Operations at Metro, left the agency last Friday.

This is in an article, telling us that, surprise! Metro has never been in compliance with state law on recordkeeping.

Let me make this perfectly clear: Metro has NO excuse. All the information you need to know on how to comply with the requirements is available on the state’s websites. It took me a few hours research, and a half-day class on the city’s software and how to fill out the paperwork. To devise the program for Metro, which is far smaller than the city, should not have taken more than a week of work by a lawyer and any reasonable competent bureaucrat assigned to the work. I mean, hell, use the salary they’re wasting on Mary Sit’n’Spin’s blog to hire someone with some experience in the work — I’m available.

Fair warning, though: if you try to shred anything on my watch, you get fed to the shredder first.