Transmittal memo
To: Boulder City Council
cc Boulder City Manager
Boulder City Attorney
From: Priscilla and Fleet White
Subject: Our comments to Boulder city Council
Date: March 18, 2014
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Boulder City Council:
Attached is a transcript of our comments made last night during the Open Comment section of the Council meeting.
Additionally, we would appreciate some consideration of some background information relevant to this matter:
As you all now know, this issue was first raised in 2002 which led to proceeding in Boulder District Court. Prior to those proceedings, on August 6 2002, we made comments to the City Council similar to those we made at last night's meeting. We have attached those comments
for your review. A week later, on August 13, 2002, then-Boulder City Attorney Joseph N. de Raismes, III prepared a memorandum addressed to the City Council and City Manager in which he made recommendations to the City Council regarding our criminal justice records request. A
copy of that memorandum is attached. Mr. de Raismes, like Mr. Carr, recommended that the police not publicly release the Krebs investigation files. We strongly disagreed with Mr. de Raismes' position in 2002, just as we strongly disagree with Mr. Carr's position today. As for
Mr. de Raismes, he is the "municipal employee" referenced in our August 6, 2002 comments to the Council and who, though unnamed, was a subject of a book published in May 1999 by Denver true crime author, Stephen Singular. In his book, Mr. Singular describes meeting Mr. de
Raismes in 1997 to confront him regardding an incident that occured in 1991 when Mr. de Raismes was acting as interim Boulder City Manager. 1
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1 See Presumed Guilty: An Investigation into the JonBenet Ramsey Case, the Media, and the Culture of *advertiser censored*" Pages 154-157; Beverly Hills, CA: New Millennium Press, c1999. ISBN: 1-893224-00-7. We have a copy of the book and would be happy to lend it to you or, if you prefer, it is available from the Main Branch of the Boulder Public Library. If you want
further perspective on the alleged incident in 1991 and its relevance to Mr. de Raismes'interaction with Mr. Singular in 1997, you may wish to confer with Mayor Applebaum. who was on City Council in 1991.
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