When public officials fight transparency, they usually lose twice: once in court and once in the court of public opinion. Cleveland Heights Mayor Khalil Seren is learning that lesson the hard way as he continues to defy a legal recommendation to release police body camera footage showing his wife’s outburst at City Hall.

Thursday’s episode of Today in Ohio discussed the latest development in the ongoing saga came when an independent lawyer—a special master for the Ohio Court of Claims—determined that Cleveland Heights is actively breaking the law by refusing to release the video. The footage reportedly captures the mayor’s wife, Natalie McDaniel, unleashing what witnesses described as a profane tirade at staff and a police officer in City Hall last December.

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