I'm amazed that someone with the title of "Assistant Director of Communications" actually wrote this meaningless, word salad of gibberish:
>"We looked into this and confirmed with our IT Department that API was a tool that was previously available at one point, but has been discontinued / turned off. The API Access site is stagnant and not being monitored and should have been pulled down once the tool was no longer publicly accessible, and as a result, requests for access were not being reviewed.”
The best translation I can come up with seems to be "The API used to exist, but was turned off because it was turned off".
It sounds even worse to me. It seems to say 'we thought we had turned that off sometime ago, but we didn't actually take down the public site which gave access to it. In the past, we would have reviewed any request for data through the API, but since we thought we had stopped public access, we were accidentally giving data away without checking if we are actually on with people knowing these things'.
>"We looked into this and confirmed with our IT Department that API was a tool that was previously available at one point, but has been discontinued / turned off. The API Access site is stagnant and not being monitored and should have been pulled down once the tool was no longer publicly accessible, and as a result, requests for access were not being reviewed.”
The best translation I can come up with seems to be "The API used to exist, but was turned off because it was turned off".