Mayor Lori Lightfoot's administration released hundreds of pages of mostly unredacted records involving accusations of workplace misconduct in city government after fighting to keep many of them secret for more than two years.
Chicago Fire Department Commissioner Annette Nance-Holt speaks on Jan. 25, 2023, at the Public Safety Training Center on the West Side.
Still, the Lightfoot administration didn’t agree to release them until the Tribune filed a lawsuit and a Cook County judge sided with the newspaper in a September 2022 ruling. The city eventually released records that were so heavily redacted they provided practically no usable information. That led to more negotiations with the Tribune before a set of legible records was handed over in April.
“We are within our rights to withhold records when the City believes the material is protected under ,” Johnson said. “However, the City has fully complied with the Court’s ruling after the Court determined this material was not exempt under federal and state rules and regulations.” In the case involving Nance-Holt, a 300-page investigative file shows a woman told city investigators that an ex-boyfriend who was a Chicago firefighter had shared a sex video the couple had made a few years earlier with another Fire Department employee.
But when the IG’s office interviewed the accuser, she denied being blackmailed. An IG official informed Human Resources that it would not open a full-fledged probe into the matter. The IG’s office also shared other information about the case with HR, which ended up taking it over.video. The firefighter who made it said he shared it with the accuser but denied sharing it with the fitness instructor.
Reached by the Tribune, Nance-Holt declined to discuss the case. Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford referred all inquiries about the case to the EEOC division of the city’s Department of Human Resources, adding that the Fire Department’s internal affairs division didn’t handle the case.
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