The mayor of Troy and City Council members have been sued under the state Open Meetings Act by a resident who criticized the mayor at a council meeting last fall and then at the next council meeting was ordered to sit down when she tried to speak.

Bill Laitner reports in the Free Press that the Nov. 26 comments of Charlene Femminineo, 62, and a 26-year resident of the city, were stricken from the city’s official minutes and cut from the videotape of the earlier meeting by a vote of the council, officials said. Upset by that, Femminineo said she got up to repeat her comments at the Dec. 3 meeting and was ordered back to her seat.

“They completely deleted me,” Femminineo said Monday.

 

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