ALT Screenshot of text reading: Per the City Attorney's Office, we will require that you attribute the response to ‘staff from the Mayor’s Office and the Street Services Coordination Center,’” Bowman told Street Roots in a June 24 email. Street Roots declined the conditions Bowman provided, citing journalistic standards prohibiting deceptive attribution and the public’s right to know which public employee or official is making a particular statement. Street Roots also noted the lack of any existing legal precedent in which a city government can "require" a newspaper not to print the names of public officials in connection with official statements.