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Parker trial set for Feb. 24
Former city manager suing for wrongful firing
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Frank Parker
Jury selection is slated for Tuesday in Bulloch County Superior Court for former city manager Frank Parker's whistleblower and wrongful-firing lawsuit against the city of Statesboro, with the trial scheduled to begin Feb. 24. Parker was named interim manager in October 2010 and served as full city manager from June 14, 2011, until City Council fired him by a 3-2 vote on June 24, 2014. In a meeting with city department heads five days earlier, Parker reportedly said either that he sometimes met privately with a majority of council members and discussed city business, or that he had observed council members doing so, according to retellings of the incident now on record.
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