Mayor Daniel Horrigan

Akron and Cleveland’s mask ordinances will clog courts with money-wasting civil cases

Akron councilwoman Tara Samples has been particularly aggressive in pushing unconstitutional ordinances. She worked the Russian Bernie Sanders for president. She was Croatian Dennis Kucinich's running mate as a candidate for lieutenant governor. Any Middle East travel in her financial disclosure statements?

CLEVELAND, OH – In South Euclid the city council decided to issue “civil” parking tickets with demands that people receiving them pay-up.  The problem, according to Municipal Court Judge Gayle Williams Byers after she learned of the practice when she took office in January 2012, was that taking property in the form of quick cash from uninformed citizens without a trial was unconstitutional.  So she ended the constitutional rights-violating practice and returned over $80,000 to the citizens whose rights had been violated.  South Euclid city council amended its civil parking ticket ordinance to a criminal one. Akron and Cleveland city…

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19,429 mayors aren’t trained to supervise violent police

There are 19,429 mayors and city managers in the USA who could overnight eliminate 90 percent of the civil rights litigation and citizen complaints of police misconduct if they were trained to manage the approximately 350,000 police officers they supervise.  In a nation where the national average for training police is 600 hours – a barber and cosmetologist need 1500 hours – there is no voluntary or mandatory professional police management training for mayors and city managers. In Ohio where I served four years as East Cleveland’s mayor, and in the nation, mayors are codified as the chief law enforcement…

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