Kamloops mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson speaking to reporters outside the Kamloops courthouse on Oct. 16, 2024.

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A BC judge will hear government lawyers go up against the mayor of Kamloops next month over a leaked workplace investigation.

The BC Attorney General has scheduled a hearing with Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson in October, months after he signed a court order agreeing to hand over the documents.

In February, the ministry filed against Hamer-Jackson after the city had tried for nearly a year to recover an internal report from him.

It was the first workplace investigation into the mayor, which concluded he had bullied multiple employees within weeks of entering office. iNFOnews.ca first reported on its existence, and a copy of the report was later leaked to the now shuttered Kamloops This Week.

It was in April 2024, several months later, Hamer-Jackson got a copy, and said he'd received it in the mail anonymously. He went on to make copies at Staples and deliver them to various news outlets.

City staff tried to have Hamer-Jackson return the original and all copies he made, among several other privacy law violations, and turned to Attorney General Niki Sharma when its efforts were unsuccessful.

Hamer-Jackson would later sign a consent agreement with the province, which gave him a deadline in June to turn over all copies of the document and delete any electronic ones.

Asked in August whether the file was ongoing, the ministry confirmed it was but offered no other comment. On Sept. 8, it filed in court to schedule a hearing before a BC Supreme Court Justice.

Asked whether he had turned over the report to the province, Hamer-Jackson initially took issue with previous iNFOnews.ca reporting and said in a text message, "you should possibly seek more medical attention."

Several minutes later, he said he had turned the documents that were mailed to him over to the ministry.

When asked why the ministry would be asking for a court date if he had complied with the signed agreement, Hamer-Jackson didn't answer and instead deferred the question to the ministry and city staff.

He did not answer a phone call from iNFOnews.ca.

The ministry didn't immediately respond to a request to clarify whether Hamer-Jackson had complied with the agreement or what prompted the request for the Oct. 14 hearing.

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