CARDINAL NEWS: Lynchburg council censures 2 members, strips their seniority, bans them from some proceedings

The Lynchburg City Council put on a civics lesson Tuesday. It wasn’t necessarily the kind you’d find in a school textbook, but it was educational nonetheless. The immediate business was a special meeting in which, at the end, the council voted 4-3 to censure council members Jeff Helgeson and Marty Misjuns for “disorderly behavior and misconduct” for breaking attorney-client privilege by releasing an email that the city attorney sent to all council members, the argument being that only a majority of council has the right to waive that attorney-client privilege. Read the full article here.