Medicine Hat top staffer sent ‘cease and desist’ letter to mayor, arguing two counts of defamation
Mayor Linnsie Clark was sent a letter from City Manager Ann Mitchell’s lawyer demanding the mayor to “cease and desist” from further defaming Mitchell in November of last year.
The letter, included amid 47 pages of documents released by Clark on Wednesday, outlined two occasions when Clark defamed Mitchell.
The first was in an email to “numerous individuals” on Aug. 15, in which Clark alleged nine statements that Mitchell’s lawyers called malicious, all of which were redacted.
Clark’s allegation at an August 2023 public meeting that Mitchell carried out a reorganization of city hall without authority to do so independently of council approval was listed as a second count of defamation.