Karen Bass text messages about Palisades fire DELETED

Mayor Karen Bass is taking heat because some text messages on her phone were deleted. A syndicated news report on Yahoo stated the following:

Mayor Karen Bass' text messages from the first days of the January wildfires were deleted, according to a Los Angeles Times report... After a public records request for Bass' text messages from Jan. 7 and 8 related to the fires, the Times said the city had "no responsive records."

City lawyer David Michaelson said Bass' phone is set to auto-delete messages... Michaelson argued state public record laws don't apply to text messages.