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Council dismisses ethics complaint against Councilor Joe Latino after law department says no actionable claim
Summary
An ethics complaint filed by a union representative was presented to the council and the city attorney said it did not state an actionable violation of the city's ethics code; the council moved to dismiss the complaint and voted 5-1 to do so after debate about power differentials and whether the code should be changed.
The council received an ethics complaint filed Oct. 21 by Alice Grimm, president of the paging union, alleging conduct by Councilor Joe Latino. The city attorney presented a confidential legal memo and advised that, assuming the allegations in the complaint are true, the claim nonetheless fails to state a…
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