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Alex Woodley with Diana Sande at Cafe con Papi 2024.
Okay, we can hear everyone out there gnashing their teeth with Picon writing that we really enjoyed the former Director of Code Enforcement at the City of Reno, Alex Woodley. He seemed to be fair and friendly and was willing to talk to the press. Heck, everyone seems to like Alex Woodley and many supported his primary campaign for Washoe County School Board Trustee, including Diana Sande who is challenging Assemblywoman Selena La Rue Hatch for the District 25 seat. We reached out to both for comment and haven’t heard back.
From Diana Sande’s Facebook page on May 8, 2024.
Woodley made a big mistake when he used his city issued cell phone for what others are calling “sexting” – but his comment to This is Reno about deleting the text messages, well that sort of leaves a bad taste. How about just not doing it.
Picon thinks it is fairly mild sexting, nothing that salacious to share, but we do enjoy Mr. Woodley likes to frequent local casino properties for his alleged assignations, good to know the money is staying in Reno. This reminds us of Reno in the 1980’s when there were many assignations, who remembers The Holiday Hotel and Casino where the Reno Renaissance now stands, oh the people we could name, but no one had a pesky cell phone back then that could get them in hot water, and camera phones weren’t even a thought.
1960’s photo from Pinterest of the Holiday Casino.
Should Woodley continue as a Washoe County School Board Trustee, that’s a whole different can of worms for another article, we’re only going to say, “Remember Scott Kelly.”
Picon has dug through all the public records we received Tuesday, October 22nd from the City of Reno. If you print it, as we did, it is half a ream of paper. Woodley was a busy guy, and his staff appear to have been happy to work with him.
Picon has it on good authority that Woodley was not planning on leaving his employment at City of Reno, and his “sexting” was discovered due to a random search of his city cell phone looking for specific texts due to an alleged accusation of insubordination.
The City of Reno redacting the photos, etc. to protect those who did not realize they were on a City of Reno cell phone is simply ridiculous. In this electronic world we all know anything and everything we do can be discovered. So why go to so much trouble to redact? Well, the rumor is one of the women might be a City of Reno employee. The memory of former City of Reno employee Madeline Burak in 2017 comes to mind since the powers that be at the City of Reno did little or nothing after learning of Burak’s complaint.
From the deposition of Maureen McKissick - Case No. 3:17-cv-00458-MMD-VPC Maureen McKissick & Deanna Gescheider vs City of Reno, Does I-X.
If this is a Reno city employee, that puts a WHOLE different slant on the issue of redaction, and turns this story about the mistake of using a company issued cell phone for personal sexting into a bigger story and, dare we say it, perhaps a cover-up?
Redacted photo from Alex Woodley’s City of Reno cell phone. Second photo below.
Picon’s asking our readers to help us find one of the women from the redacted City of Reno records. She seems to enjoy spending time at the Peppermill, Atlantis, and Grand Sierra Resort pools (there are multiple photos), and has a distinctive heart tattoo. If you know this woman, or can point us in a direction to find her, get in touch.
Second photo: Redacted photo from Alex Woodley’s City of Reno cell phone.