Meet Michael Berman, Who Builds PowerPoints On The Clock
Job title: Senior Manager of Technology Infrastructure Services. Side project, allegedly performed during business hours on agency systems: building his supervisor's personal litigation exhibits.
Job titles are supposed to tell you what someone does all day. Michael Berman's says Senior Manager of Technology Infrastructure Services for Community Transit. Servers, networks, the stuff that keeps an agency's IT running. That's the job the public is paying for.
According to Community Transit's own production of records, Berman has also found time to compile a 71-page evidence packet — emails with headers and metadata, formatted onto agency letterhead — for a state court filing made by his direct supervisor, the day before her own protection-order hearing. The agency's production confirms this happened on agency time, on agency systems, using the agency's Microsoft 365 tenant and its Barracuda email-security infrastructure.
That's not a technology infrastructure task. That's a different kind of infrastructure altogether.
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The rest of this exhibit stays behind the wall. Public records aren't free where you're sitting either — turns out neither is this.
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