The Times filed a public records request for text messages sent or received by the mayor while she was in transit on Jan. 7 or Jan. 8 that mentioned fire response or her travel plans. Attorney David Michaelson says there is “no requirement that a city official or employee save text messages.

Sahil Nandwani, a real estate agent with JohnHart Real Estate, has launched a bid to recall Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass. Real estate broker Sahil Nandwani has launched a bid to recall Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass as she continues to take heat for her response to the Pacific Palisades wildfire.

Bass and her office have said she was in constant communication while she was out of the country. But it's impossible to know exactly what she was communicating, because her messages were not saved, according to a city lawyer.

An attorney for Bass' office claims that public record laws do not apply to text messages, and that Bass' phone is set up to automatically delete her text messages.

Mayor Karen Bass' text messages from the first days of the January wildfires were deleted, according to a Los Angeles Times report.

Any recall effort would need to gather valid signatures from 15% of registered voters, or about 330,000 overall.