On the latest episode of Former Metropolitan Police Department Employees Reveal Internal Corruption: A former MPD public records officer is a key witness in a lawsuit claiming the department instituted an unwritten policy to delay and withhold the release of public records that could embarrass the department or its then-chief, Peter Newsham. The lawsuit filed by Amy Phillips, a D.C. public defender who is acting on her own behalf, claims that MPD’s unofficial policy applied to her and other requesters who had been critical of Newsham and/or the department.
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