The Complaint That Created Chaos and Caused City Credibility to Crumble
One email. That is all it took to send the City of Medicine Hat into a tailspin… The subject line: "Request to remove link to Kelly Allard candidate website." The body referenced defamation and liability. Within 24 hours, the City removed Allard's link. Then they removed every candidate's link.
MEDICINE HAT’S TRANSPARENCY TANTRUM: City Spends Public Money Fighting a Ghost—And Keeps Losing
Instead of addressing the requests, the City ran to the OIPC to have them thrown out as “frivolous, vexatious, or made in bad faith.” The Commissioner’s adjudicator, in a masterclass of patient repetition, shot down each attempt.
City Violated Privacy of 2021 Police Commission Applicants
Former Medicine Hat Police Chief Mike Worden pic from the MHPS website

