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Indian Trail council adopts censure of Councilmember Todd Barber after contested hearing
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The Indian Trail Town Council voted 3–1 to adopt a resolution of censure for Councilmember Todd Barber after a contested May 13 hearing over his alleged ties to the "Indian Trail Weasel Report" Facebook page.
The Indian Trail Town Council voted to adopt a resolution of censure for Councilmember Todd Barber after a May 13 hearing that focused on whether Barber had administrative or editorial control of a local Facebook page called the Indian Trail Weasel Report. The motion to adopt the resolution, based on an investigation by the law firm Parker and Poe, passed 3–1 with one councilmember recused.
The hearing included more than an hour of statements from Barber disputing the investigator's findings and presenting an affidavit from Lisa Barber, who said she has sole administrative privileges and editorial control of the Facebook page. "I have not posted on the page since becoming the Weasel Report," Councilmember Todd Barber said during his statement, and he supplied documents and affidavits to support his comments.
Town Attorney Melanie Cox told the council the censure hearing was…
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