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Resident alleges Oxnard City attorney’s office acted without council authorization, urges accountability
Summary
During public comment, a resident accused the city and its attorney’s office of using disinformation to damage their reputation and said no city council vote authorized the actions; the speaker named Kenneth Roselle and Jenny Kelly and asked council members to protect residents rather than staff.
A resident who spoke during the Oxnard City Council public comment period accused city staff and the city attorney’s office of overstepping their authority and using “disinformation” to damage the resident’s standing in the neighborhood.
“No city council vote was ever taken authorizing any of this,” the resident said, adding that “neither Kenneth Roselle or Jenny Kelly has the jurisdiction to unilaterally restrict a citizen’s access to their own government.” The speaker urged council members to remember that they are “there to protect the people of this city and not there to protect city staff.”
The comment named two city staffers and framed the dispute as a question of process and legal authority: the speaker asserted the city attorney’s office is “exercising powers it was never granted” and said that city officials were allowing improper conduct to continue.
Council members did not respond to the substantive allegations during the public comment excerpt in the record provided. No motion, vote or staff report addressing the resident’s claims appears in the transcript segments supplied.
The remarks came during the meeting’s public-comment period, a portion of the agenda when speakers may address the council but the body typically does not engage in substantive discussion on the floor. The transcript shows the chair thanked the speaker and moved on to virtual-public-comment procedures and other speakers without taking action on the allegations.
The transcript does not include verification of the speaker’s factual claims, including whether a formal council vote occurred or the internal authority lines for the city attorney’s office. The council’s next procedural or investigative step was not recorded in the provided segments.
