Cleveland City Council’s handling of Councilman Joe Jones’ censure has been an inexcusably secret process that denied Jones due process by refusing him to see the results of the investigation into his behavior, say the hosts of the Today in Ohio podcast .

Jones is the first Cleveland council member censured in 50 years, based on an investigation that concluded he had threatened to kill a staffer and intimidated another employee. The council voted to censure him, however, without seeing the full facts, as council leadership has refused to release the investigative report—even hiding it hidden from Jones himself.

Jones now is demanding to see it.

“He and his attorney, Sam O’Leary, say that the investigation that led to the censure was riddled with serious factual, procedural, and legal

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