ZACAHRY GORCHOW, Detroit Free Press
The Detroit City Council’s independent attorney said he will urge the Michigan Supreme Court on Tuesday to reject Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s effort to block the release of secret documents in the text-messaging scandal that has cost taxpayers more than $9 million.
“The City Council is determined that it and the people of the city of Detroit be fully informed as to the circumstances of any settlement, but particularly this settlement, because it was so widely publicized,” Detroit attorney William Goodman said Monday.
Goodman said he plans to file a brief in the administration’s appeal of a lawsuit the Free Press filed early last month after the city repeatedly refused to release documents in a police whistleblower lawsuit settled last October for $8.4 million.
