FLINT, MI -- The city, the Flint Housing Commission and three current and former members of the commission’s oversight board have denied multiple claims of wrongdoing from a former FHC executive director who sued them after his firing last year.

Attorneys for the city, FHC and the officials made their claims in an initial answer to the lawsuit filed in March by Harold Ince Jr. in U.S. District Court for the Eastern Division of Michigan.

In the lawsuit, Ince claims his due process and First Amendment rights were violated by the Housing Commission and claims violations of the Open Meetings Act and Whistleblower Protection Act.

The lawsuit claims his firing was triggered after he authorized an investigation into the conduct of Geraldine Redmond, an FHC board member who earlier this year

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