Kansas City spent $11,000 on investigators who followed the former director of civil rights and equal opportunity to prove her main residence was not in the city.
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The city says it was investigating whether Andrea Dorch, former head of the Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity Department, was violating the city's residency requirement. The city was billed nearly $11,000 for the surveillance by a company in Missouri that hires private investigators. Dorch resigned from her position in April.
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