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Albany In State Of "Soul-Searching" After Fall Of Robert Freeman

New York State Capitol
Karen DeWitt
New York State Capitol

Inappropriate touching. Pornography kept on a work computer. Conversations that veered from open government questions to a reporter’s appearance. Those allegations and more have led to the firing of a fixture in New York state government: Robert Freeman. 

Freeman had headed the New York state Committee on Open Government for more than four decades, serving as a resource to generations of reporters seeking access to government documents and meetings.

But as the USA Today Network's Albany Bureau reported, Freeman faces allegations of sexual harassment from a number of journalists, and was the subject of previous investigations. Reporter Jon Campbell joined us to discuss the latest.

News Director, ipick@wamc.org
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