A Tennessee Newspaper Wins Open Records Lawsuit Against Knoxville
A Tennessee newspaper won an important ruling last week in a lawsuit that seeks to force the city of Knoxville to turn over records about its search for a police chief.
Ruling on Tuesday, Chancellor John Weaver said the city cannot block the Knoxville News Sentinel from questioning officials under oath about the search, the paper reported.
The city took public input at the beginning of its search but hired the Police Executive Research Forum to conduct the candidate search at a cost of $43,000 instead of relying on its own human resources department.
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