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Jan 12, 2009 3:44 pm US/Eastern

Photographers Kicked Out Of City Hall Meeting

BALTIMORE (AP) ― Still and video photographers were kicked out of a public lunch meeting with Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon and the City Council for about a half-hour on Monday.

The meeting was the first gathering of the mayor and City Council since the indictments last week of Dixon and City Councilwoman Helen Holton.
 
Dixon is accused of theft and perjury, while Holton is accused of taking a bribe from a developer.

It was business as usual for Dixon and Holton at the meeting, but media interest was high.

A few minutes after it began, the mayor's spokesman, Ian Brennan, escorted several photographers from the room.

He says it's been a long-standing policy dating back to previous mayors that photographers are allowed into the meeting at the outset to take pictures, then escorted out for space considerations.

But after reporters and photographers complained Monday about the arrangement, the photographers were let back in.

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