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Titusville council hires outside lawyers to respond to broad criminal subpoena
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Titusville City Council voted to retain outside counsel after staff said the city received a broad subpoena in State of Florida v. Vicky Conklin that would return tens of thousands of hits and likely cannot be processed within the 20-day court deadline.
The Titusville City Council on Thursday voted to retain outside counsel to help the city respond to a March 10 subpoena duces tecum in the criminal case State of Florida v. Vicky Conklin, after staff described a large volume of potentially responsive records and a narrow court timeline.
City Manager (name not specified) told the council the city had been served “on 03/10/2025 with 2 subpoena duces tecums without deposition” and that staff had begun gathering records but confronted a heavy workload and questions about redactions and privilege. The city’s assistant city attorney, Chelsea (last name not specified), said an initial machine search of city email tied to three named individuals returned “17,700 plus emails” and that the records custodian estimated about 60 hours to sort the first tranche of those email hits.
“The goal is compliance,” the city manager said. “If you don't comply in the 20 days you're facing contempt of court.” Council members were told the subpoena’s date range runs from Aug. 29 through March 10 and that the party issuing the subpoena…
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