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Cincinnati City Council Votes to Subpoena CityBeat Reporter

By AAN Staff
january 15, 2004  03:44 pm
Cincinnati City Council Votes to Subpoena CityBeat Reporter
Some Cincinnati police officers claimed to be in two places at once so they could double-bill the city and the public housing authority, Leslie Blade reported in CityBeat on Dec. 10. Now the Cincinnati City Council wants to ask her questions about the scandal so badly it voted 5-4 last week to subpoena her. CityBeat Editor/Co-Publisher John Fox criticizes the decision to make a journalist an investigative tool of government.
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