Amid backlash, Bellevue City Council kills proposed citizen conduct policy

Bellevue city hall is moving to a new building. It will be beautiful. As written is was a bad policy.


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A meeting of the Bellevue City Council.

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POSTED: TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 2015 10:35 AM
By Jordan Pascale / World-Herald staff writer

The Bellevue City Council killed a proposed citizen code of conduct Monday amid negative public opinion and an ACLU lawsuit threat.

Council President Paul Cook said the city can do better by training staff and developing internal procedures to deal with people who take up too much staff member time.

“We can accomplish what we had hoped for without a code of conduct,” Cook said.

Councilman Don Preister suggested the policy to help staff members deal with the public, but the proposal has since become controversial, developing into a debate over resident’s rights and free speech.

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