College Park meeting prompts AG scrutiny amid tensions between city council, mayor and residents

Bianca Motley Broom, the mayor of College Park, speaks to the press during the the Second Annual Full Force Fulton Law enforcement and Elected Officials Collaboration Summit at Atlanta Metropolitan Sate College in Atlanta, Ga on June 15, 2022
Bianca Motley Broom, the mayor of College Park, speaks to the press during the the Second Annual Full Force Fulton Law enforcement and Elected Officials Collaboration Summit at Atlanta Metropolitan Sate College in Atlanta, Ga on June 15, 2022. (Matthew Pearson/For WABE)

The Georgia attorney general’s office is asking for an explanation from College Park’s city attorney after the city council forced the public out of a special meeting on Aug. 9. 

In the meeting, the city council adopted a measure to censure the mayor, Bianca Motley Broom.

Some members of the public in attendance at the meeting responded with disapproval of the effort, which led the interim city manager, Emmanuel Adediran, to remove the audience.