Escambia County has filed suit against Jonathan Owens, aide to former County Commissioner Doug Underhill, Alexander Arduini and Gannett, owner of the Pensacola News Journal, seeking recovery of data stolen of the county's server.In early 2022, the commissioner had trouble with his cell phone and had asked the county’s IT department to help retrieve the data so that he could preserve the information considered to be public records. Someone stole the data off the county’s server and gave it Owens, who then passed it on to attorneys suing the county, the once-daily newspapers and others. Owens has told the media the information was given to him anonymously.