Judge Weighs Public’s Right to Know vs. Ex-Milpitas Official’s Privacy in...
Public records have already established that former Milpitas City Manager Tom Williams tried to spend taxpayer money on his personal legal fees. They’ve shown that he threatened to sue his own city for...
View ArticleMilpitas Official Who Resigned Amid Controversy Lands Interim Job as Millbrae...
Tom Williams, who resigned last year as city manager of Milpitas after being accused of misusing tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars, found a new job as chief administrator in his hometown of...
View ArticleJudge Tentatively Orders Milpitas to Release Records About Former City...
The public’s right to know about a former Milpitas city manager’s alleged misconduct outweighs the official’s right to privacy, according to a Wednesday court ruling. Santa Clara County Superior Court...
View ArticleNewly Released Records Detail Misconduct by Former Milpitas City Manager Tom...
Ex-Milpitas City Manager Tom Williams not only billed taxpayers for his personal legal fees, he also tried covering his tracks by intimidating witnesses and lying to investigators. That’s according a...
View ArticleMilpitas Mayor Slammed for Tone-Deaf Comments, Awkward Hugs, Offbeat Rap...
Milpitas Mayor Rich Tran campaigned on a promise to clean up City Hall from the top down. Not a year into his first term, he felt he delivered on that vow when notoriously combative City Manager Tom...
View ArticleMilpitas Ordered to Pay Legal Fees in Public Records Suit
The First Amendment Coalition (FAC) has been awarded $100,000 in attorneys’ fees in its successful public records lawsuit against Milpitas. Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Sunil Kulkarni...
View ArticleArbitrator Rejects Ex-Milpitas Official’s Harassment Claims
Tom Williams, the Milpitas bureaucrat who threatened to sue his own city for more than $1 million in 2017, will apparently walk away with just $1,372 and some change. An arbitrator on March 29...
View ArticleEx-Milpitas Official Tom Williams Butts Heads in Millbrae
Anyone who dealt with Tom Williams during his tenure as city manager of Milpitas could’ve warned Millbrae when it hired him on for the equivalent position last year. But the Peninsula ‘burb had to...
View ArticleMilpitas City Manager Julie Edmonds-Mares Calls It Quits
Milpitas City Manager Julie Edmonds-Mares is stepping down after less than a year-and-a-half on the job, marking the fourth time in two years that the position has been vacated. Waiting in the wings to...
View ArticleIt’s Official: Milpitas Hires Steve McHarris as City Manager
In 2015, Steve McHarris left his post as Milpitas planning director to escape the alleged abuses by his old boss, City Manager Tom Williams. That complaint set in motion a chain of events that...
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