Jeremy Durham investigation committee banks on the power of transparency
The special House committee investigating allegations of sexual harassment by state House Rep. Jeremy Durham, R-Franklin, did the right thing today in releasing its findings. The investigative report, which the committee posted online, is the outcome of a months-long investigation by Attorney General Herbert Slatery at the request of the committee. It included 78 interviews, 22 of them with women who described encounters with Durham. Durham's attorney tried to get an injunction to stop the release of the report, but Davidson County Chancellor Russell Perkins said it was in the public's interest for the report to be released and denied the request. The media rushes to pick up copies of [...]