By Michael Bielawski

The Queen City’s mayor Emma Mulvaney-Stanak has taken to the radio to respond to accusations that her administration has overstepped its powers by overseeing the Burlington Police Department’s press releases.

“This is an outgrowth of compromise within the community of Burlington,” she told the Morning Drive radio show on Friday. “It is an extension of our hard work and conversation that have been very tricky since 2020 around how we express and know the values of the community, around the kind of police that we need in our community.”

It’s a “temporary executive order” until it is more formally updated. She pledged that her office is only doing “recommendations not edits” and she reiterated that her office intends to fully comply with a recent Freedom of Information Act request by journalist Michael Donoghue to release the original police copies.

“This is my first executive order and I plan to always use them judiciously, my style is one of working internally and collaboratively with department heads before taking that step,” she said.

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