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Hampton ethics board rules complaint invalid
An ethics charge against a Hampton councilwoman was dismissed by the city’s ethics committee.
The ethics committee for the city of Hampton ruled during a Feb. 26 public hearing that an ethics violation alleged by one city council member against another was not a violation.
The complaint was filed by Elton Brown against Stephanie Bodie, charging that she made a statement via email regarding a former city employee for the intended purpose of making it a public record, based on an article in a Henry County newspaper last year written after an open records request.
The vote was 5-0 in favor of Bodie, who did not mention the employee by name when commenting after the hearing and stressed that she was acting in her role as a public servant to make a genuine request for information.
