A Coweta commissioner sought disciplinary action against a county resident for voicing opposition to the Project Sail data center — a project over which he has voting authority.

In a June 19 email obtained via a Georgia Open Records Act request, Coweta County Commissioner John Reidelbach asked the Georgia Department of Natural Resources to reprimand an employee who spoke at a Board of Commissioners meeting and drafted an environmental study on the site.

Reidelbach sent the message from his campaign email address rather than his government-issued account.

It became public through the open records process because the recipient is a government employee.

"I feel (the employee) should be reprimanded and informed to stop this misinformation as he does not have all the facts of the project, n

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