In the lawsuit over a GPS device used to track Reno’s mayor , a new filing this week by Washoe County District Court says the anonymous person who paid for the spying must reveal his name.
“In this case, John Doe has not shown that disclosure of his identity will reveal highly personal and sensitive information about him, or that disclosure will subject him to a significant risk of retaliatory physical or mental harm,” Discovery Commissioner Wesley Ayers wrote in his order this week.
The anonymous John Doe, who hired a private investigator to spy on Reno Mayor Hillary Schieve and then-Washoe County Commissioner Vaughn Hartung, had requested a protection order to keep his identity a secret after the Nevada Supreme Court ordered the private investigator to reveal who hired him…