Attorney General's office asks for documentation in firing of McCoy

Jun. 3—ALBANY — Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr's office has requested that Dougherty County Attorney Alex Shalishali provide Carr's office with documentation showing why its vote to terminate County Administrator Mike McCoy at a work session on May 22 was "a necessary act."

In a letter to Shalishali dated May 31, Assistant Attorney General Kristen Settlemire noted that while O.C.G.A. § 50-14-1(e)(1) "expressly contemplates that the [f]ailure to include on the agenda an item which becomes necessary to address during the course of a meeting shall not preclude considering and acting upon such item," the issue of concern is "whether the commission properly considered the motion that was voted on at its May 22 meeting, in light of the fact that it was not included on the agenda."

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