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Residents raise complaints about police conduct, city attorney and court processes during public comment

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Multiple residents used public comment at the Dickinson City Commission meeting to allege police misconduct, question municipal-court practices and the city attorney’s conduct, and to seek help enforcing a smoking restriction at a commercial property.

Several residents used the Dickinson City Commission’s public-comment period to raise a range of complaints about local law enforcement, the city attorney’s conduct, municipal court practices, and an individual nuisance complaint about smoking at a commercial property.

Debbie Biffert addressed the commission about second-hand smoke from a nearby unit. She said the North Dakota property assessor’s website lists the address as commercial and asked whether the city could enforce a state no-smoking rule that she described as requiring people to smoke at least 20 feet from a building. City Administrator Dossinger responded that the city would forward…

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