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- What happens when you seek county info?
- Elected officials can be great help
- SUNNYSIDE (Wednesday 7-7-99)---For a couple weeks now, we've been attempting to look into Yakima County's maze of public records to get some facts.
- I'm writing to the County Auditor, Treasurer, Assessor and Prosecutor asking them for facts I know are in the county record pools...somewhere.
- Here's what we're interested in: county sources indicate the IRS has confiscated some 300 properties from Yakima County individuals--voting constituents--since 1985. I simply want a list of these confiscated properties and owners, and a commensurate list of persons to whom the properties were then sold.
- Once we have a handle on these facts, we can clarify circumstances under which the properties were taken and sold by the IRS.
- We can also determine who the involved federal officials are, where they are, who specifically they work for, and what precise processes and procedures feds use physically to take an individual's property in Yakima County.
- We can learn with whom, among local, elected county officials, feds routinely coordinate. We can learn how feds "do their thing" in our county. When an IRS victim loses his Yakima County home, who goes out and points the gun at him and evicts him and his family? Is it a federal marshal? A Sheriff's deputy? (Sheriff Doug Blair doesn't even bother to answer our queries--whatta guy).
- I believe this research project will eventually reveal information county voters should know about and think about, regardless of their opinions concerning it. We sincerely thank those county officials who have helped us so far.