Ethics Complaint Against Mayor and Entire City Council

Ethics complaint against Chief Hatch, Mayor Deloughy, and the entire City Council


Chief Hatch has lied about several things in my case. Many of you have seen the evidence I have provided.

First, Chief Hatch lied about an internal investigation I requested after my arrest. Chief Hatch said no such investigation took place, but I received a bill for my open records request for that document. Also in the email in response to my request, Chief Hatch stated it was not done yet, and he would send the final copy and the amount for the cost to the City Clerk for me to pay before I picked up the paperwork. Please find the enclosed documentation.

Second, I requested a second internal investigation one year later, claiming Joshua Hamlett falsified the police report in my case. Upon completion of this request, I got a copy and found it very disturbing. First the investigator didn’t do a complete investigation. He took the accused (Hamlett) word for it. If they would have done a complete investigation the 911 tapes would have been listened to and the investigator would have heard the Sheriff as the second caller, yet the investigator listed as an unknown caller. The sheriff says as 911 answers “This is the Sheriff”. They did not pull the CAD report from the 911 center that proves Hamlett couldn’t have done all that he said he did, as the CAD report lists him as being at the doctors office for only 20 minutes.

Third, when I started sending all this information to Chief Hatch, He took it as a threat and told me not to email him again. Since when is sending information about a case a threat? Maybe when that person knows he is caught in a huge lie.

Fourth, your city manager in defense of Chief Hatch sends me a threatening email and copied the city attorney on it stating that I need to remove an image that I use on Topix. This image is of Chief Hatch, and it was taken off a public domain website. Later after I returned Mr. Crowell email and stated that no laws were broken by my use of this image, Crowell admitted that is was not illegal, so why did he email me was it INTIMADATION?

And last but not least, The Mayor and entire city council has ignored every bit of this. They have ignored several complaints against Chief Hatch even after I predicted that Officer Hamlett would quit after I filed the second internal investigation. Oh by the way, he did quit 2 days later. All other officers in this case, also quit.

Further documentation upon request.

Rick Rogers