Newly-released records show the growing tab taxpayers paid for out-of-state travel for Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb and his entourage in Bibb’s first year in office.
It took months of requests and the threat of legal action by a News 5 attorney, but the city finally released the travel records and expense reports detailing 14 trips to cities across the United States, costing taxpayers nearly $70,000 in 2022.Despite repeated requests, the city refuses to release the names of those officers or reports showing what those officers were doing while on the trips, citing security concerns even though those trips happened months ago.
According to expense reports, taxpayers spent nearly $40,000 to cover flights, hotels, rental cars, meals and other travel-related costs for the mayor’s security team in 2022.In a news release trumpeting Bibb’s selection to the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Institute program, the city claimed, “Mayor Bibb is attending at no cost to the city.”
“It’s better to be safe than sorry,” said Dimoff, who has experience providing executive security. “It’s not hard for people that want to do criminal acts or aggressive-type behavior; it’s not unusual for them to easily hit the internet, have photos of those subjects and start to look for the one that doesn’t have security.”
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