City Hall: Mayor does not need separate legal counsel

Inweekly asked the Hayward Administration whether Mayor Ashton Hayward needed to have separate legal counsel since Judge Roger Vinson ruled he was individually named in fired Pensacola Fire Chief Matt Schmitt’s lawsuit.

City Public Information Officer Vernon Steward emailed the newspaper this reply: “It is our understanding that he does not need to hire his own attorney just because I was personally named in the suit.”