That is so clearly a complete crock that the attorney who signed that should be censured.
Bookkeeping programs have been around since at least the mid-90s. Every single one has the ability to search by name. So either the state is lying through its *** or it is operating with 100% paper records. The latter is probably impossible given the staff that would be required to process such payments.
What Yee is really saying is that she would rather spend thousands of $$$ on attorney fees than 5 minutes of staff time to answer a query. That doesn’t seem like a prudent steward of state funds and she should be impeached.
You misspelled “imprisoned”.