The Rochester City Council wants the city’s top lawyer fired.
In a Thursday afternoon news conference, Councilmembers called on Mayor Lovely Warren to fire Corporation Counsel Tim Curtin, because of what they call a pattern of obstructive behavior by Curtin regarding council and Police Accountability Board investigations into the Rochester Police Department.
Council Vice-President Willie Lightfoot says it started with the Daniel Prude case, in which council’s outside investigator found that Curtin tried to block the Prude family from getting the body-worn camera footage that revealed what happened when Prude encountered Rochester police officers a year ago.
Councilmembers say the City Council is hiring its own legal representative, separate from City Hall, for the first time.
Mayor Lovely Warren would have to fire the Corporation Counsel. She responded through a spokesman that Curtin has already been reprimanded and suspended without pay for a month.