A building inspector lied to bill a sick homeowner $36,020.40.
It ran for 1,156 days against a woman who was in and out of the hospital. Every dollar traces back to one Notice and Order the City’s own file admits was never finished. When her people caught the holes, the inspectors didn’t fix them — they covered them.
Put your name and address on that form, and it’s your house next. Here is the proof — in the City’s own records, and on the property’s own cameras.
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An inspector swore in writing the City had no photographs of his September 16 inspection. The property’s own cameras filmed him taking them — 10:03 that morning, the timestamp burned into the video.
His denial, next to the footage →
They dragged this out for two years over a permit — while on the property’s own audio, the Principal Building Inspector says the City didn’t want a permit pulled and the building was small enough it didn’t need one. They set a 30-day permit deadline anyway, and never once named which permit.
Hear them say it →
To get through the door of a woman in a wheelchair, officials threatened her with police, the fire department, and animal control — in a case that was never about animals. Then they walked off and never used any of it.
What the cameras caught →
A signed, sworn proof of service — certifying delivery of a file the City’s own dates show was put together three days later.
The dates that can’t both be true →
They wrote pages about her backyard, then shrank how they got inside to one tidy sentence — and left the warrant threat their own cameras recorded out of the file they later certified “complete.”
The sentence vs. the footage →
They walked back into the property on a phone call from someone their own records had called just a “friend” — relabeled the owner’s “rep” the very day it got them inside.
Friend on Monday, “rep” on Thursday →
The City handed over one of the inspector’s emails under one records request — then, eight days later, swore it had no such records.
Released it, then denied it existed →
Every single time the owner asked for the file, the City certified it “complete” — while the photos, the emails, and the proof stayed missing.
The “complete” file that wasn’t →
$31,230 of the penalties were billed before the City can show it ever lawfully set foot on the property.
Billed before they had access →
All of it rests on one Notice and Order built on placeholder codes — and the attached list admits the inspection was never finished. That unfinished form is what $36,020.40 was built on.
The form it was all built on →
This is one case, in one city, against one sick woman who couldn’t fight back. It worked. The case is closed, the money is paid, and the people who did it expect everyone to move on. That is exactly why it’s here — all 55 findings, every source, on the record, so the next person can see it coming.