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Resident tells Carlisle council she was repeatedly contacted after asking councilor not to contact her
Summary
At the City of Carlisle public forum, resident and Planning Commission member Carrie Haggs said she told a council member to stop contacting her about a personal matter but continued to receive outreach; she said the contacts have affected her service on another local board and warned she may pursue legal options if it continues.
At the City of Carlisle council meeting on May 13, resident and Planning Commission and Parks & Recreation Board member Carrie Haggs told the council she has received repeated communications from people acting at the request of a council member after she asked that councilor not to contact her.
Haggs told the council, “I don't wanna be here right now and I wanna try to get through this without crying,” and described multiple contacts she said followed a private request to stop communication. She said one contact came “less than 4 days later” and that she had been chastised by the president of an unrelated association over the matter.
Haggs said she had raised the issue privately with a council member before the prior meeting and felt the response was inadequate. She told councilors she declined a proposed private meeting and that the ongoing contacts had made her fearful: “Now I'm so freaked out every time my ring doorbell camera goes off.”
Mayor Winkler thanked Haggs for speaking and for her service on city boards; no council action was taken on the complaint during the meeting. Haggs said she had told council members in private about the issue and that, if contacts continued, she would “make my complaints known in a very public forum and if I have to do that in a legal manner, I will do that also.”
The council did not place the matter on the agenda for discussion or take formal action at the meeting. Mayor Winkler closed the public forum after Haggs’s remarks and moved on to council reports.
