Members of two Dallas City Council Committees will meet today to question top city staffers about the loss of eight terabytes of data at the Dallas Police Department.
The missing 8TB of data includes criminal case files, pictures and case notes that could impact some pending criminal trials.
The data, nearly 22TB in all, was deleted at the end of March and the beginning of April when the files were being moved from cloud storage to a local server. While several top staffers at Dallas City Hall were quickly notified about the problem, members of the City Council and the Dallas County District Attorney's office were not made aware of the problem until recently.
Dallas City Manager T.C. Broadnax has said there should have been better communication about the incident. He has drafted new policies regarding when elected officials should be notified about data problems and new procedures for data handling.
Two Dallas City Council committees, the Government Performance and Financial Management Committee and the Public Safety Committees, have scheduled a joint meeting for 12:30pm today. They'll question the City Manager and other high-ranking city staffers about the notification process and efforts to prevent the problem from happening again.
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