The Manheim Township board of commissioners in June acted with limited and incomplete information when they voted unanimously to fire their police chief, an attorney representing the former chief wrote in a letter last month.
Dated July 18, the letter from Edward A. Paskey of the York County firm France Paskey Swope Pugh, asks that the commissioners return Duane M. Fisher to his post while an outside investigation into an April 30 traffic stop by Fisher remains ongoing.
“If the only direct source of information the board had in its possession to consider prior to terminating Chief Fisher’s employment was the condensed video that had been widely circulated in the media, respectfully, the board only possessed a fraction of the total information,” Paskey wrote…