Residents press council on recall‑campaign paperwork and a policy for body barriers after homicide left body exposed

During the public‑comment period at the Lancaster City Council meeting, several residents raised two separate concerns: problems they say arose from a recent recall‑campaign paperwork process and a call for a city policy requiring temporary body barriers when a deceased person is visible to the public.

Aubrey McPherson, who identified herself during public comment, said she and others had been harmed by errors in the paperwork for a local recall effort and said the mistakes led to litigation that affected roughly 85 people. “The whole reason that we were sued on the first one was because of the bad paperwork,” McPherson said. She asked the council to consider a formal city recall policy because, she said, “there is no city ordinance or city regulation when it pertains to what our recall policy is for the city.” McPherson said she had already spoken…