It appears that Mayor Nancy Vaughan and the majority of the Greensboro City Council are hoping that if they ignore the domestic violence incident involving City Manager Tai Jaiyeoba at his home on Dec. 28, it will go away.
It has been over a month since the incident happened and the City Council has not discussed the matter publicly or reportedly in closed session.
However, a number of people still have questions about what took place and how the information was kept from the public for almost a month.
Amiel Rossabi of Rossabi Law Partners filed a lengthy request for public records with the Greensboro Public Information Request Tracking (PIRT) system related to the incident on Monday, Jan. 29.
Rossabi is the attorney for the Greensboro Police Officers Association (GPOA), but in this public records request Rossabi said that he was not acting on behalf of the GPOA.
Along with being filed with the PIRT system, the public records request was sent to Vaughan, the eight city councilmembers, Jaiyeoba, Greensboro Police Chief John Thompson and Assistant City Manager Trey Davis.
The request is detailed, with parts (a) through (f). Part (c) is a request for “Copies of any notes, recordings, emails, texts, documents, electronic mail and communications of any kind between or among any of the people to whom this PIRT is directed related to the Incident, including and without limitations (i) communications between or among the Chief of Police, the City Manager, the Deputy City Manager and any other city employees regarding the decision NOT to make any public records about the Incident; (ii) communications about the 911 call related to the Incident; and (iii) communications about how to “cover up” the Incident and treat it differently than all other domestic violence incidents because it involved the City Manager.”
The public records request also asks for “Documents reflecting the names of the City Employees and Council members who were made aware of the Incident before January 15, 2024, and also “Cell phone records of the City Manager, Deputy City Manager (Trey Davis), the Chief of Police and the Mayor for the period December 28, 2023 – December 31.”
The bulk of the request does not ask for public records about the incident itself, but about how the information, about a domestic disturbance involving the city manager to the degree that he reportedly dislocated his shoulder, was kept from the public.
Someone decided that rather than file a police report on this incident by computer, thus making it available to the public, that a highly unusual handwritten report should be filed in this case that involved the city manager.
Don’t let this go away till the truth comes out. Most other people would be facing some serious circumstances but our city manager seems to be above the law. This man should have never been hired, he is not qualified for the position and seems certain that DEI played a major role. Hire a person for their knowledge and expertise, not to meet quotas or look pretty on paper.
And this Democrat Double-Standard demonstration comes as a surprise to – – – – ???
Guess our City Leaders believe all their citizens are fools? The crimes committed at the City Manager’s home appears to be missing from the Greensboro Police Department Website? Much like the incident report disappeared from the Greensboro Police Department’s incident website following the attempted robbery by two off duty Greensboro Police Officers of a known Drug Dealer 2/10/2023 near Golden Gate Drive at 5:30 am in the morning! No criminal charges were filed here and most likely no criminal charges will be filed from the City Manager’s home incident? It is the duty of the Greensboro Police Dept. to arrest the aggressors involved in a domestic violence infraction. Just remember there are two sets of laws in Greensboro! One for the citizens and another for the City Manager and Greensboro Police Department. Both the Greensboro City Manager and the Greensboro Chief of Police should be terminated immediately!
Jim Donaldson
Don’t even think of voting for Josh Stein for Govenor! As the Attorney General of N.C. he won’t even address our corrupt Leaders and Law Enforcement officials in Greensboro. He has been advised of the Golden Gate situation on several occasions! and now there is another violation of law that is being brushed aside. If Josh Stein can’t do his job as Attorney General, what kind of Govenor is he going to be?
I would suspect these “courtesies” are available to all people, right? After all, what’s good for one has to be good for all. Otherwise it might suggest discriminating between officials and residents. I’m just saying….
I hope Amiel stays with this. There is definitely something going on.
Called it! They intend to drag this out until everyone gets tired of their nonsense.
Good luck! I believe us average citizens know this cover up will stay covered up. It’s how Greensboro works!
Thank you for keeping an eye on this situation. I find it troubling to say the least, but it’s no different than the time Matheny was blackout drunk in his car, sleeping one off with the engine running and got a friendly ride home from GPD. These folks are not above the law.
I’m pretty sure he got charged and convicted or plead guilty on at least one DUI.
Bledsoe needs to come out of retirement.
This is the normal way this council operates. Same thing happened with the 400K spent to buy a Gun Show Name and they had to go to court for those documents.
Do you believe this City Council actually givss one single DAMN for any Greensboro resident?
My sources tell me that sensitive reports are often simply locked to keep leaks from happening. I’m told that locking it prevents unauthorized officers from accessing it and then flapping their gums about things the public would not have access to. This is not an uncommon occurrence. Cases get locked all the time for various reasons.
The unfortunate side effect is that it also locks the public portions of those reports from public view. In other words, the mysterious “paper copy” is just a print out of a locked report that is in the digital GPD system. Why the city won’t make a statement to that effect and clear the air, I do not know.
Keep up the pressure. The coverup is always worse than the crime
THIS IS THE FINAL STRAW….FOR THE MANAGER AND THE CITY COUNCIL… BEATING YOUR CHILDREN IS NOT ACCEPTABLE. Hiding your crime is not acceptable. No arrest for a felony is not acceptable! A City Council that ignores the City Manager’s personal and professional issues is not acceptable! How many arrests should there be.. 10! City Manager and every single Council Member, most especially the blind Mayor who ignores everything. This is such a first world problem Mayor Vaughn. Elections are 2025, an off year designed by this City Council. Let’s get some good candidates and vote them all out!
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Why wouldn’t Mandate Mayor and her cabal cover up /get special treatment . Council members and their family members of have gotten away with unsupervised underage drinking parties, speeding with an illegally concealed and purchased handgun, being “asleep” in a SUV in the wee hours in a out of the way parking lot, and not to mention their history of trampling the rights of others with a litany of free speech restrictions over the years. Run by folks with zero integrity.
Covered it up? This manager should go anyway. GSO is poorly run. This is just a symptom of what has been happening all along.
What about the drunken Zack M. issues???
In the election of Mayor in 2022, this was the results:
Nancy Vaughan (Nonpartisan) – 43.1% 13,977 votes
Justin Outling (Nonpartisan) – 41.7% 13,542 votes (only 435 votes short to tie her for a runoff)
Chris Meadows (Nonpartisan) (Write-in) 14.3% – 4,650 votes
Had Meadows not run, Justin would be our mayor (unknown if Meadows pulled down votes for either Nancy or Justin). Are you tired of the “good ole girls” running the city with pet projects (eg, Johnson, et al)? Think about that the next time you vote, and if you didn’t vote, then don’t complain about the outcomes.