—4 STATE OF TEXAS TRAVIS COUNTY AFFIDAVIT OF SARA BLACK 1, Sara Black, an unemployment recipient of Travis County, TX file a complaint against the Texas Workforce Commission, I ask Travis County to investigate this complaint alleging the concealment, alteration, destruction of my records and of TWC’s refusal to produce them upgn my request. 2 ve 1. On or about 10-17-08 at 2:34 pm, I requested information from the Texas Workforce Commission at 101 E. 15th St., Rm. 266, Austin, TX, 78778-0001 (see Exhibit A and attachments). 2. On or about 10-20-08, I provided TWC with my driver's license, SSN and signature so that they would process my request. 3. On or about 11-1-08 at 2pm, I received two responses from TWC Open Records Staff, The first response from Margo Kaiser told me she was asking for a decision from the AG’s office on part 5 of my request. The other response from Maria Rivera provided heavily redacted emails from Claudia O’Meara, Rosa Perez and another TWC employee. 4, There were many communications between TW Some are attached to Exhibit | staff and myself on this issue. 5. On or about 1 1-7-08, I sent my first request to the Attorney General’s office asking for the information that had not been provided. 6. Onor about 11-20-08, I wrote TWC and corrected the date in part 2 of my request. There was a typo. It was 8-27-08 that I first contacted TWC staff to file a unemployment claim not 8-24-08. (See Exhibit | attachments) 7, On or about 11-20-08, Lona Chastain, TWC Open Records Coordinator, claimed that the information for part 2 of my request did not exist relating to a record of my 8-27-08 call to TWC. | did not talk to Claudia O'Meara until 9-10-08, but O’Meara knew the contents of my 8-27-08 call. O’Meara authored an 8-27-08 email with the details of my 8-27-08 call. It appears to me that Chastain and other ‘TWC Open Records staff are concealing the records of my 8-27-08 call. 8. I believe that Lona Chastain, Maria Rivera and Margo Kaiser concealed records and did not provide me access to my records. Records I should be able to see. 1 believe they violated Section 552.353(a) which provides:An officer for public information, or the officer’s agent, commits an offense if, with criminal negligence, the officer or the officer's agent fails or refuses to give access to, or to permit or provide copying of, public information to ‘a requestor as provided by this chapter. ick of production and violation of my confidentiality 08, I sent a second request to the Attorney General’s office. A lavit as Exhibit “A” 9. Onor about 11- copy of that letter is attached to th al 10. On or about 12-18-08, Margo Kaiser mailed me a letter claiming to have provided the information according to 20 CFR Part 603 and a claiming my unemployment information did not fall under the public information act. A copy of her letter is attached to this affidavit as Exhibit “B.” 11. On or about 12-29-08, | the AG’s office sent me a letter stating that my unemployment claim information was not public information. Therefore, the AG's office could not assist me. A copy of the AG’s letter is attached as Exhibit oe 12. On or about 12-29-08, an assistant AG filed some of my UI records in Travis County in response to my request for judicial review by Travis County of TWC’ actions case D-1-GN-08-004371. He provided my SSN and a Travis County had QI lating to my QM, TWC obtained t (on in the course of me requesting unemployment benefit confidential informa fering and concealin; 13. On or about 11-24-08, I resumed filing my UI claims. 1 filed two claim periods by phone (2 weeks each). | reported wa ges ‘TT the week of November 2-8 and wages from[{§B for November 9-13. A transcript of my responses is automatically created by the TWC system. 14. On or about 11-26-08, I spoke with TWC employee Jimmy Mullens 936-6379. He said my claims were on hold because | reported wages for both claim weeks from November 2-15. I verbally gave Mullens the employer and wage information for a: a I recorded my conversation with Mullens. 15, On or about 12-09-08, my new claim was on hold because I had worked again. I spoke to TWC staff to report my new wages and asked for the correction my wages for November 9-15. had paid me less than they had stated. The TWC employee informed me that there was no record of my wages for the week ending November 15 (November 9-15.) There should be two: the Tele-Serv telephone transcript and Mullens record.16. On or about 12-11-08 to about 1-14-09, TWC did an investigation of me. My benefits were stopped in early January and restarted in the middle of the month. 1 lost hundreds in benefits in January due to the alteration and concealment of my TWC records, Since my benefits had been stopped, | was not notified that my balance was about to run out. So, | lost hundreds in benefit: 17. On or about 12-29-08, | appealed the actions starting 12-11-08 twice. TWC never scheduled me for a hearing. That is concealment by TWC that I appealed this, action 18. On or about 1-14-09 at 10:05 pm, I received an email from Leslie Geballe, supervisor of both Rosa Perez and Jimmy Mullens. In her email, she claims I did not report th ‘wages until December 9, 2008. This means TWC altered the date I reported the wages (11-26-08). The email from Geballe is attached to this affidavit as Exhibit “D.” 19. TWC records claim to have paid me full benefits for some weeks, but that differs from the Chase statements. For instance, TWC claims to have paid me $276 for the week ending 1-3-09, but TWC secretly deducted out $229 with the explanation ‘prior payment.’ What prior payment? TWC did not send me a fatement for this transaction. I stumbled upon it on the internet. I call that bad faith on the part of TWC. 20. On or about 1-28-09 at 4:36 pm, I appealed another action of TWC. I sent my appeal from the Travis County library. 21. On or about 3-5-09, I had a hearing on that action. TWC presented a fax receipt showing two fax receipt lines. One line showed the date 1-28-09 from “Travis County Law Library” and other showing a date of 2-9-09 with the location missing. When I received the TWC decision, the hearing officer had changed the received date of my appeal to 2-9-09. (I taped this hearing and can provide it upon request.) Sara Black, Affiant I request Travis County to investigate my cong