An attorney for the City of Richmond doesn’t want former City Hall FOIA officer Connie Clay to get her old work cell phone back.

During Monday’s feisty pre-trial hearing in Clay’s wrongful termination lawsuit against the city , attorneys sparred over whether the city had turned over all relevant text messages, emails and other communications between Clay and her former boss, Petula Burks.

Sarah Robb, Clay’s attorney, was adamant that they had not.

“There are gaps,” Robb said of the text messages her team had received during discovery. “There are text messages we know exist.”

Jimmy Robinson Jr., an attorney with Ogletree Deakins who is representing the city, was equally adamant that, while officials had withheld text messages they didn’t deem relevant to the case, they had met their

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