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20 times Community Transit told me one thing while its own files said another. Their words on both sides. I added one sentence under each.

01

The intake form

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Community Transit to HenkJuly 17, 2026Request 26-134
No responsive records have been located to date.
What that answered
Any threat assessment... including the completed intake form referenced in the June 4, 2025 email chain with subject "Intake form to help with assessment," and all records showing how CT Security or HR first learned that Henk Meyers might attend a CT board meeting.
FIn their files
Security to HRJune 4, 2025 · 3:14 pmsubject: Intake form to help with assessment
Following up on our phone call. Attached is the case intake which will help in determining level of severity and next steps.
HR's completed answersJune 4, 2025 · 3:24 pm
Do we believe this person will show up to the board meeting online or in person?... Yes, there is a concern that they will attempt to sla[n]der protected person at the Board meeting.
SecurityJune 4, 2025 · 3:30 pm
I think it would be reasonable to deny any public comment from this individual per the court order despite it being unserved. I'll discuss with Scott as we may need to run it through legal and then coordinate with IT and Rachel for the board meeting.

No records of the intake form. They had already produced it. The threat they assessed was public comment.

Source: Internal emails produced by Community Transit under 25-168 and 25-123, a year before the 26-134 answer.
02

The five-day letter

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Rachel Woods to HenkJune 13, 2025 · 8:13 amRequest 25-123
We are in receipt of your records request and are currently working on collecting responsive records. Due to the volume of records requests we are currently processing in our program and the scope of this request additional time is needed to locate the records.
FIn their files
Rachel Woods to Matthew HendricksJune 12, 2025 · 2:10 pm
So, the 5 day is due tomorrow. This is the one that involves an employee with a protection order against the requester. Shall I push the due date out a few weeks while we work on collecting responsive records?
Matthew HendricksJune 12, 2025 · 4:11 pm
Yes, let's do that.
Rachel WoodsJune 12, 2025 · after 4:11 pm
Will do. I still need to start the search and will get that in motion tomorrow.

"Currently working on collecting." The search had not started. The reason was not volume.

Source: Internal emails produced by Community Transit under Request 25-168.
03

Not relevant

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Matthew Hendricks to HenkOctober 8, 2025
Any legal matters you may have outside of these public records requests are not part of, nor relevant to the processing of your requests.
FIn their files
Teams chat produced to HenkJune 6, 2025 · 9:11 amRequest 25-123
Please do not act on this request at this time. The individual is a disgruntled family member of a CT employee who is lashing out in a variety of directions. A court order is in the works and Transit Security has been notified.
Rachel Woods to Matthew HendricksJune 12, 2025
This is the one that involves an employee with a protection order against the requester.

Not relevant to the processing. Only the reason the processing stopped.

Source: Teams screenshot released under 25-123; internal email produced under 25-168.
04

Nothing withheld

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Matthew Hendricks to HenkOctober 8, 2025Request 25-123
To date no record has been withheld or redacted.
FIn their files
Community Transit to HenkJuly 15, 2025 · 11:47 amRequest 25-123
The last email has an exemption applied to its attachments per RCW. Please see the exemption log.
Files released the same minute
25-123 Exemption Log Part 1.xlsx

Their exemption log, on their request, 85 days earlier.

Source: Community Transit NextRequest timeline for 25-123, produced under 26-270.
05

The repository file

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Matthew Hendricks to HenkOctober 8, 2025
The uploaded documents are placed in a repository file containing records identified as a result of processing search terms that you provided and do not indicate a withholding of records.
FIn their files
Staff-only uploadJuly 15, 2025 · 10:53 amRequest 25-123
Rachel Text.PNG
Same file, byte for byteSHA-256
cf67779ea7be140b66e1c8e55ced0c709f8dec59ec92ee06ec606b194449092f
Where it actually came fromJuly 10, 2025
An attachment to Michael Berman's email to Rachel Woods. A custodian handed it over. No search term found it.
Community Transit to HenkJuly 15, 2025 · 11:47 am
There were no Teams internal comms messages.

Search terms I provided did not find it. Berman emailed it to her. They released it 84 days later.

Source: 25-123 timeline; Berman email produced under 25-168; hash comparison of both files.
06

No records of the rule

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Community Transit to HenkJuly 15, 2025Request 25-123, Part 4
There are no records that are responsive to this part of the request.
FIn their files
Michael Berman to Rachel WoodsJune 16, 2025 · 11:02 am
I do. I have email in both my sent and deleted as well as Teams chat… In addition, an email redirect was put in place during this time and updated for emails received from email accounts used by Henk Meyers.
Michael Berman's mailboxJune 3 to 6, 2025
Fifteen copies of Henk's emails, pulled out of the Barracuda filter and saved into the IT manager's mailbox.

No responsive records. Fifteen of them in one mailbox.

Source: Produced by Community Transit under 25-168, February 25, 2026. None were produced under 25-123.
07

Not acted upon

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Michael Berman to Rachel WoodsJuly 10, 2025
These were not distributed to any employees and were not acted upon.
FIn their files
Michael Berman to De TapiaJune 5, 2025 · 10:02 am
I have already captured it in the evidence folder. He used one of the addresses we are blocking.
De Tapia to Rachel WoodsJune 16, 2025 · 10:28 am
I have an upcoming hearing and would like to request all emails from May 29th and June to date sent to me and anyone else in the agency from any of these email addresses
Michael Berman to Rachel WoodsJune 16, 2025 · 12:37 pm
This will complete that request and I will be FTP'ing them to the requestor. Time spent, 1 hour.

Not distributed to any employees. Distributed to the IT Director, for her hearing, in an hour.

Source: Internal emails produced by Community Transit under 25-168.
08

Can we block all his emails?

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How Community Transit searched Part 1June 16, 2025Request 25-123
All emails and teams between: Phil Tapia & De Tapia
FIn their files
De Tapia to Ann DowtyMay 31, 2025 · 1:16 pm
Hi Ann, looks like emails from him are still coming through to me on work email. Can we block all his emails?

The request asked for emails referencing me. They searched for emails with me in them. This one sat in her mailbox the whole time.

Source: Produced by Community Transit under 25-168 in 2026. Never produced under 25-123.
09

Transitory

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Michael Berman to Rachel WoodsJuly 10, 2025
There was a chat with me and De, but that contained only transitory information.
FIn their files
Michael Berman to Rachel WoodsJune 16, 2025
I do. I have email in both my sent and deleted as well as Teams chat between me and you, and me and De Tapia.

Responsive in June. Transitory in July. No exemption, no log, never produced.

Source: Both emails produced by Community Transit under 25-168.
10

Thirty days

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Rachel Woods to HenkNovember 10, 2025Request 25-123
Microsoft Teams Chat is used for transitory messages at our agency and has an automatic 30-day retention period.
FIn their files
Rachel Woods to HenkDecember 22, 2025Request 25-209
Please note that per the state retention email guidelines, emails are retained 6 years, these happen to be past retention but documents we still had in our possession.
Community Transit's own retention exportRequests 26-267, 26-279
Teams Chat 30 Day Retain & Delete. Created July 31, 2025, while 25-123 was open. Modified December 18, 2025, fifteen days after the federal complaint.
Community Transit to HenkApril 6, 2026Request 26-56
Microsoft Teams is used for office phone communications and those retentions are set to 90 days per limitation of the Microsoft Teams call/chat platform.

Ten-year-old email survived. Five-month-old Teams chat did not. Thirty days in November, ninety in April, and none of the five policies they produced says ninety.

Source: NextRequest correspondence; retention policy export produced by Community Transit.
11

Fulfilled

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Community Transit to HenkDecember 8, 2025 · 4:04 pmRequest 25-123, closed
We have produced all records responsive to this request and no original metadata has been altered
FIn their files
IT, staff-only noteDecember 8, 2025 · 9:56 am
the content itself is either not in an email or would require a different search criteria. I think only Sam will be able to answer this.
Rachel Woods, staff-only noteDecember 8, 2025 · 11:50 am
Consulting on close.

Six hours from "only Sam can answer this" to "all records produced." Sam was asked in September, October and October again. No reply is logged.

Source: Community Transit NextRequest timeline for 25-123, produced under 26-270.
12

The phone

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Rachel Woods to HenkNovember 10, 2025Request 25-123
Neither De Tapia nor Phil Tapia have or have had agency issued cell phones.
FIn their files
De Tapia's Community Transit email signature2015 through June 2025
425-521-5310 Desk / 253.███.5622 Mobile
Community Transit, Request 26-35May 2026
400 of 441 rows of that phone's log redacted as "Personal communications on personal devices that are not related to the conduct of government."

Not agency issued. Only on the agency signature for ten years. Personal enough to black out 400 calls. We left the last four showing, which is four more digits than they left.

Source: Agency email produced by Community Transit; 26-35 production.
13

No investigation

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Community Transit to HenkOctober 14, 2026Request 26-204
No investigation was activated concerning Henk Meyers... between May 29, 2025 and July 31, 2025
FIn their files
Community Transit's own productionRequest 26-134, Part 6August 27, 2026
Investigation.ics · June 6, 2025 · 8:30 to 10:30 am
HR phone bill and investigator invoiceJune 6, 2025
HR calls the outside investigator at 9:01 am for 25 minutes. The invoice bills June 6 for "communication with J. Howard, et al." Total: $7,380, paid by check.

No investigation. A two-hour calendar block named Investigation. $7,380.

Source: 26-134 Part 6; 26-35 Verizon invoices; investigator invoice produced by Community Transit.
14

Past retention

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Rachel Woods to HenkNovember 25, 2025Request 25-197
We no longer have payment records prior to 2019 as they are past the record retention period.
FIn their files
Community Transit, Request 26-132June 15, 2026
PeopleSoft payment history for Tapia Productions: checks from July 12, 2016 through October 19, 2017, with cleared dates. Check 101543, 7/12/2016, $29,761. Check 101645, 7/15/2016, $41,050.
Community Transit, Request 26-132July 23, 2026
Check images released: Jul 2016 AP - 101543, 101645 · Aug 2016 AP - 102051 · Sep 2016 · Oct 2016 · Nov 2016 · AP-02.2017 · AP-04.2017 · AP-07.2017 · AP-08.2017 · AP-10.2017 · Jan 2018 AP - 108426

No longer have them. Produced them seven months later, under a different number.

Source: 25-197 and 26-132 productions.
15

Trying to be smart

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Community Transit to HenkOctober 6, 2025Request 25-197
We have placed holds on the files and email accounts for people involved to preserve their records.
FIn their files
Rachel Woods to Jasper Cheng, staff taskDecember 22, 2025Request 25-197
Jasper, we need to set up time to develop the search criteria for this request. Trying to be smart so we do not capture all of De's emails for this time period.
The search terms they builtRequest 25-197
Tapia Productions. Chaos Theory. Two tax IDs. 2019-051. Never "De Tapia," "De Meyers," "Phil," "husband" or "conflict of interest." The name search was "List of all Phillips."
When it was De askingJune 16, 2025
all emails from May 29th and June to date sent to me and anyone else in the agency from any of these email addresses

People involved. Every person except the one married to the vendor. Her request took an hour.

Source: 26-67 production ("Request #25-197.pdf"); 25-197 search criteria documents; 25-168.
16

Phil would like to chat

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HR memo to De MeyersAugust 15, 2017
Neither you nor anyone under your oversight may have any involvement, directly or indirectly in the bid process or administration of any contract between Community Transit and Tapia Productions.
FIn their files
De Tapia, signing "Director - IT", to an outside contactFebruary 2, 2024Request 25-197
https://www.chaostheory.com/ Phil would like to chat with you

The memo kept her out of his Community Transit contracts. Seven years later she was handing out his website from her agency account.

Source: Both produced by Community Transit under 25-197.
17

Your direction

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Community Transit to HenkSeptember 9, 2026 · 4:46 and 4:47 pmRequests 26-223 and 26-224
Given your direction to close out this request, Community Transit will do so.
FIn their files
Henk, on the same requestsSeptember 8, 2026 · 2:19 to 2:26 pm
For clarity, this message is not a request to close, withdraw, cancel, modify, or otherwise act on this request.
Henk, same day
Nothing in this message directs Community Transit to close, withdraw, cancel, modify, or otherwise act on any request.

I wrote, in writing, that I was not asking them to close it. The next day they closed it on my direction. Every closure starts a one-year clock.

Source: NextRequest correspondence on 26-223, 26-224 and 26-215.
18

The spreadsheet

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Rachel Woods to HenkMarch 17, 2026Request 26-35
Call details are available for the full time period, in Excel for the 10/7/2025-3/7/2026 time period and PDF invoice format prior to that.
FIn their files
Rachel Woods's own sample, released March 9, 2026Jun 2025 - Feb 2026 R Woods.xlsx
Native Excel call detail for the August and September 2025 bill cycles. 83 rows. Earliest call: July 8, 2025.
The six custodian workbooks produced March 17
All start September 8, 2025 or later.

Excel only goes back to October. Her own Excel, eight days earlier, went back to July.

Source: 26-35 productions of March 9 and March 17, 2026.
19

The hold

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Matthew Hendricks to HenkSeptember 18, 2025
Community Transit acknowledges your litigation hold notice and confirms that the agency will comply with its legal obligations to preserve records relevant to your requests... the agency has policies and procedures in place to ensure the preservation of records.
FIn their files
Community Transit's own admin audit logRequest 26-67September 14 to November 29, 2025
Holds created in that window: "Kunjan Dayal email hold" and "Tim Chrobuck email hold," September 26, 2025, both for a different request. No hold on De Tapia, Michael Berman or Rachel Woods appears.
Same logSeptember 25, 2025 · 5:43 to 6:04 pm
Purview case "SR-61010" created. Whole-mailbox holds on Tim Chrobuck and Kunjan Dayal, the two who approved the Tapia purchase order. Nothing on the case after that night.
Same logNovember 7, 2025 · 22:43 UTC
Set-Mailbox RetentionHoldEnabled False on "Records Request 25-168 Emails Teams Test."

Holds were being placed that month. Not on the three people the hold notice was about. A hold set before September 14 would not show in this log, and they have not produced one.

Source: 26-67 Unified Audit Log export, released September 24, 2026.
20

Fourteen days

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Requests 26-98 through 26-105May 14, 2026entered by agency staff
Entered on behalf of Mr. Meyers. Per the May 6, 2026 letter from Matthew Hendricks, Council to Community Transit, documents or a status report will be provided within 14 days of the letter or by May 20.
FIn their files
Community Transit closing all eightMay 20, 2026
thank you for letting us know this request can be closed

Counsel wrote the deadline. Staff typed it in eight times. Then closed all eight, thanking me for a direction I never gave.

Source: Community Transit NextRequest entries for 26-98 through 26-105.

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About these

Every quote on this page came out of a Community Transit records production: its NextRequest timelines, the internal email it produced under later requests, its own retention-policy exports and phone bills. Where a quote is shortened, the cut is marked. Nothing is paraphrased inside quotation marks.

The agency does not publish records requests, so none of this can be looked up on its portal. Anyone can ask for the same records. The request numbers are on every receipt.