Officials in a suburban Chicago community have issued municipal citations to a local news reporter for what they say were persistent contacts with city officials seeking comment on treacherous fall flooding
. The tickets from Calumet City, a city of 35,000 located 24 miles south of Chicago, allege “interference/hampering of city employees' by Hank Sanders, a reporter for the Daily Southtown, the Chicago Tribune reported Friday.
Mitch Pugh, executive editor of the Chicago Tribune, said one reason Sanders continued asking questions was for a follow-up flooding story that has yet to be published. While the citations are not of “the same degree and magnitude” as the other recent incidents, Pugh said, “it seems to be on the same through line of a real lack of understanding of what the First Amendment protects, what a journalist’s job is, what our role is.
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