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Roll-call voteResolution 150914

ADOPTED

Adopted, this resolution denounces demeaning, misogynistic, racist, and homophobic emails reportedly exchanged by three prosecutors while working for the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office and now employed by the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office. It urges the District Attorney to terminate their employment and calls on the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office to appoint an independent special prosecutor to investigate them.

Denouncing the demeaning, misogynistic, racist and homophobic emails sent on state-owned computers by prosecutors currently employed by Philadelphia's DA's Office, urging the District Attorney to terminate their employment, and calling on the Pennsylvania Attorney-General's office to appoint an independent special prosecutor to investigate the three former state prosecutors, so as to restore public confidence in our law enforcement entities.

Pass2015-12-03

Action by CITY COUNCIL

A motion was made that this matter be ADOPTED. The motion carried by the following vote:

13 Yes·2 No·0 Absent

Roll Call

MemberVote
Blondell Reynolds BrownYes
Bobby HenonYes
Brian J. O'NeillNo
Cindy BassYes
Curtis Jones, Jr.Yes
Darrell L. ClarkeYes
David OhNo
Dennis M. O'BrienYes
Jannie L. BlackwellYes
Kenyatta JohnsonYes
Maria D. Quiñones-SánchezYes
Marian B. TascoYes
Mark SquillaYes
W. Wilson Goode, Jr.Yes
William K. GreenleeYes