Red Bank’s law enforcement saga continued Tuesday night as Mayor Joe Glasscock asked City Manager Chris Dorsey to delay the hiring of a permanent police chief.
The request came about eight weeks after Dorsey dismissed former police chief Larry Sneed, and Glasscock, standing as he spoke, used the controversy surrounding the firing as his primary argument.
“We are faced with a lawsuit concerning the dismissal of our former chief which contains questions concerning [possible] violations of the Tennessee Open Meetings Law,” Glasscock said from a written statement. “However small you believe the outcome of our defense to be with regard to this charge, I personally believe common sense would dictate we take a second look.”
Sneed recently sued the city and three of its commissioners for $1.5 million, claiming political conspiracy and retaliatory discharge based on Vice Mayor Monty Millard’s two arrests by the Red Bank Police Department.
The mayor also said November’s election could bring new commissioners and “corrections to city policy” with it.