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Denver mayor used auto-delete messaging platform to have secret talks about migrant crisis

Jim Taft
Last updated: March 23, 2025 12:19 am
By Jim Taft 10 Min Read
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Democratic Denver Mayor Mike Johnston and his team used Signal, a messaging application with an auto-delete feature, to have secret communications about the sanctuary city’s immigration crisis.

KCNC-TV revealed the scandal in a Thursday report, explaining that the mayor and 14 of his senior advisers, appointees, and lawyers created a “Strike Force” group on the application to have sensitive discussions that would otherwise have been accessible to the public through open records requests. Instead, the end-to-end encryption software and its auto-delete feature concealed their communications.

‘Giving the impression that we are doing something we don’t want the public to see.’

Joshua Posner, the mayor’s director of strategic initiatives, sent a text message on January 15 to several administration members instructing them to move their conversations about immigration to Signal, KCNC reported.

Posner wrote, “We are going to use Signal to communicate with Strike Force so that communication remains encrypted and secure (and messages auto delete.)”

He proceeded to explain to the mayor’s team how to download the application to their phones.

Steven Zansberg, a Denver attorney, told KCNC that the actions of the mayor and his administration were “unlawful.”

“It deprives us of the rights we have as Coloradans to observe the conduct of public business,” he stated, noting that three years is the “standard records retention requirement.”

“It seems like a pretty plain, straightforward, deliberate effort to evade transparency,” Zansberg concluded.

Jeff Roberts, director of the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition, also argued that the move undermined that state’s open records law.

“This is not transparent,” Roberts told the news outlet. “They are giving the impression that we are doing something we don’t want the public to see. The city is saying at the get-go, ‘These are records the public should never see.'”

When confronted about the messaging scandal, Johnston’s office blamed President Donald Trump’s administration.

Jordan Fuja, a spokesperson for the mayor, told KCNC, “When President Trump took office in January, it was clear that there would be rapidly developing changes to the way the federal government interacts with cities that could have significant impacts on how Denver operates. The particular group was started in January for internal staff to easily keep track of and share information regarding federal actions that impact Denver under the new administration.”

Fuja argued, “The City retention schedule does not obligate city employees to retain electronic mail messages.”

KCNC reported that the city confirmed Signal messages were set to auto-delete from January 15 to January 29, after which the feature was disabled.

The decision to move the communication to Signal came just weeks after America First Legal requested that Johnston’s administration turn over communications related to immigration issues.

AFL demanded “all records, including communications, calendar entries, and documents mentioning or belonging to Mike Johnston, Mayor since November 1, 2024.”

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