Bass' trip to Ghana has garnered criticism, given the fact that weather officials had warned about dangerous wind and fire conditions before the blaze erupted. An LA Times-UC Berkeley poll shows that 41% of residents in LA described Bass' response to the firestorm as poor or very poor.

The Presidential Records Act and the Federal Records Act require officials to preserve communications related to government business.

The LA Times sued the local city government, accusing officials of breaking the law by withholding and deleting the mayor’s text messages and other records from the wildfires.

The revelation that President Donald Trump’s most senior national security officials posted the specifics of a military attack to a chat group that included a journalist hours before the attack took place has raised many questions.

The nonprofit American Oversight sued Trump Cabinet members to force them to preserve Signal messages that could otherwise be automatically deleted.

Officials inadvertently added a reporter to an unsecured group chat discussing plans for a U.S. attack on Houthis in Yemen. Here's a look at a timeline of the events.

Encrypted apps like Signal offer privacy, but simple mistakes can put your data at risk. Follow these best practices to stay protected.

Judge James Boasberg ordered five of President Donald Trump's Cabinet members on Thursday to save their Signal messages about Houthi attack plans.