A candidate for Cotati City Council is calling on the FBI to investigate City Hall. The Press Democrat reports that George Barich, a former council member himself, is calling for the investigation over the “weaponizing city departments to retaliate against their critics, opponents, whistle blowers, and past litigants in federal court.” Barich also claims the city budgets are “fake and fraudulent,” city hall is unsafe for an earthquake, and that the city didn’t offer heating or cooling stations to residents when appropriate. Barich has won at least two financial judgments against the city of Cotati in lawsuits over free speech and civil rights violations. Barich was also recalled by voters from the city council in 2009, the same year he took office.
