Chattanooga City CouncilThe Chattanooga City Council's former clerk has sued the body for what she says was her retaliatory firing.
Former Clerk Sandra Freeman was fired in December, 2014, as part of a restructuring of the city's staff which was passed 5-4 in September.
Some on the Council opposed the restructuring, calling it an "immoral and illegal" way to fire its staff.
Councilman Moses Freeman, no relation, predicted Tuesday's lawsuit while directing comments to Chairman Chip Henderson during a council meeting in November.
"I think this thing is going to come back to haunt us in days in the future. One way or another we are going to be bitten by the decision we have made," Moses Freeman said in November. "This illegal, immoral process that you have engaged in, it's hateful. You should be ashamed of yourself, and I'm ashamed of you."
Freeman says she was let go in retaliation for reporting to the City Council that Henderson and Councilwoman Carol Berz withheld a state report about statewide clerk pay scales and made secret changes to job descriptions of city council staff to make her appear ineligible for her position, according to the lawsuit.
Read more in Thursday's Chattanooga Times Free Press.