Dickinson Victory
We scored a legal victory and we want the public to know. This victory in Dickinson will end our lawsuit with the city. We won!
Dickinson Victory
“I mean, I’m the dick of Dickinson — as everybody heard, right? On YouTube, right?” former Dickinson Mayor Sean Skipworth said.
I kind of miss the dick of Dickinson, don’t you?
“Oh, I’m just kidding,” Wayne Dolcefino told the camera.
I’m glad we could help our friends in the Galveston County town get rid of Mayor Sean Skipworth.
He may be gone, but we can prove once again how the mayor and the former city manager, Theo Melancon, violated their own taxpayers.
It took us two years to prove the Skipworth administration illegally withheld public records from us.
“There’s about between seven and 8000 pages of wrongfully withheld documents, documents that it took a lawsuit and several years to get produced,” attorney Kelsey Galbraith said in an interview.
Many of the records involved the city’s targeting of the Creekside apartment complex, planning to shut down even before they had inspected the place, giving the owners a chance to make needed repairs first.
The whole due process thing.
We had repeatedly delivered a clear message to the city before we sued.
“The Texas Public Information Act is a law and the government has to abide by the law,” Galbraith said.
Dolcefino Media is currently suing the city of San Benito for its own legal conduct.
And what happened in Dickinson should be a warning to rogue city governments all over the place, like they have in Texas City right now.
Check out the city secretary there.
“Rhomari, when are we going to get our records? You know you’re breaking the law,” Wayne Dolcefino asked Rhomari Leigh.
I’ll let one of our lawyers at the Diamant Moore Law Firm deliver the message.
“If we submit a request to you under the Public Information Act and you do not comply, we’re going to sue you, and you’re going to have to deal with the consequences,” Galbraith said.
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