Three Hall County planning commissioners have filed an injunction against the county, seeking to stop removal proceedings against them that are planned to take place later this month.
The Hall County Board of Commissioners voted on Nov. 18 to appoint special counsel and draft written charges against Planning Commission Chairman Chris Braswell and planning commissioners Stan Hunt and Frank Sosebee. Those three were found in a third-party investigation by a Buford law firm to have committed multiple violations of the Georgia Open Meetings Act over the previous year.
Planning commissioners Andre Castleberry and Shannon Davidson were not found in that investigation to have committed violations. The entire planning commission, however, has been suspended since October amid the investigation.
Hall County Commission Chair David Gibbs previously told AccessWDUN that commissioners gave the accused planning commissioners a period of time to choose to resign before starting removal proceedings. The three did not elect to resign…