Bradley files counter First Amendment lawsuit against city of Manchester

The first-amendment attorney representing Coffee County resident Sarah Bradley has clapped back at the City of Manchester, calling its allegations “outrageous.”

The city recently filed an injunction, seeking to ban Bradley from making records requests for one year, as well as asking for explanations of records, and would require her to ask a court for permission before filing further requests.

“A city deciding to sue one of its own citizens for keeping too close an eye on her government is an outrageous abuse of state power that should offend every decent member of society,” attorney Daniel Horwitz told The Tennessean. Horwitz represents Bradley, who the City of Manchester accuses of “disrupting the government” by filing numerous records requests…

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