City Pays $25K After Silencing Citizen | Dover News

Dover News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Aug 24, 2026 · 1m

Milford just paid $25,000 to an unpaid intern who was silenced mid-speech at a City Council meeting — and the city’s on the hook for a public apology and policy overhaul. Tressler, speaking as a citizen not in his official role, was cut off while raising concerns about the city’s new recreational marijuana ban — which he claimed was the real reason he was shut down. His lawsuit argued it violated his First Amendment rights, and Delaware’s Attorney General agreed the state’s open meetings law had been broken. After a judge rejected the city’s attempt to dismiss the case — ruling that even…