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Speaker 1: Uh, Indy Star had a big article today, really good article. Man,

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Speaker 1: Indie Star's been pumping out some good stuff. Five months

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Speaker 1: after an outside law firm recommended changes on how the

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Speaker 1: city should manage sexual misconduct allegations, it's still unclear when

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Speaker 1: or if the city County Council will implement any of

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Speaker 1: these reforms. Remember, they spent like four hundred and fifty

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars last year on this this this law firm

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Speaker 1: too to implement and uh, you know, consider the feasibility

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Speaker 1: of updating the hr protocols. The council hired Fisher Phillips

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Speaker 1: to examine the city's existing protocols. It suggests changes after

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Speaker 1: Indie Star and mir Indy reported twenty in twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: four that multiple women accused Thomas Cook, the former top

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Speaker 1: eight of Mayor Joe hog Set the Music Is Power,

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Speaker 1: sexually harassing and assaulting them. Also, Mayor Joe hog Set

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Speaker 1: was kind of accused of some inappropriate conduct, not as severe,

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Speaker 1: I don't think as Thomas Carl Cook, but equally as creepy. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: They said that one of the things that Mayor howk

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Speaker 2: Set wanted in there was allegedly just to hire mutes

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Speaker 2: so they couldn't tell on him anymore, don't.

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Speaker 1: I don't. I'm looking for that in this in this

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Speaker 1: report eight eight at higher mutes, I don't see that.

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Speaker 1: So reading from the Indie Star final report included two

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Speaker 1: main recommendations from this this this outside firm. The city

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Speaker 1: should establish an independent Office of Inspector General to investigate

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Speaker 1: allegations of misconduct, especially those involving elected or appointed officials. Duh, yeah, obviously.

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Speaker 1: And human resources divisions should be removed from the hog

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Speaker 1: Set administration. You think, like you're going to go to

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Speaker 1: the Human.

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Speaker 2: Reasons works under the dude, your complaining for.

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Speaker 1: It, right right. They didn't. They set up some hotline

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Speaker 1: or something like that, and they had several calls of

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Speaker 1: uh this hotline that would take messages and say like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is the abuse that I've suffered underneath the hog

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Speaker 1: Seat administration.

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Speaker 2: Favorite calling this is Mayor hawk Set's office.

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Speaker 1: How can I help you? Many employee the employees the

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Speaker 1: firm saying may not want to confide in the HR department.

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Speaker 1: You think several counselors argued, so long as it's housed

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Speaker 1: with the same within the same administration where cooks Thomas

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Speaker 1: Carl Cook's alleged alleged yeah misconduct.

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Speaker 2: So what you're saying is is they got together, spent

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Speaker 2: four hundred and fifty thousand dollars for a law firm

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Speaker 2: to give them recommendations and they haven't even done them yet.

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Speaker 2: And those are the recommendations, and they're obviously you could

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Speaker 2: have done that for free.

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Speaker 1: And there were some odd affiliations with the law firm

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Speaker 1: as well with hawk Set's office. It's all that stuff.