Overview
- Council Member Vickie Paladino and the City Council struck a settlement Monday that ends the Council’s ethics case and closes Paladino’s lawsuit.
- Under the deal, Paladino must delete the posts at issue, remove her council title from her X profile, and issue a court-prescribed statement clarifying she did not intend to make colleagues feel unsafe.
- The Council will withdraw the disciplinary charge with prejudice, and the ethics chair will issue a formal reprimand as outlined in the agreement.
- The settlement restricts further public comment, allowing only the brief statements specified in the filing from Paladino and ethics chair Sandra Ung.
- The dispute began in March over posts that included a call to expel Muslims from Western nations and concluded after April court hearings where Judge Sabrina Kraus urged the parties to settle to avoid a precedent-setting ruling.