After days and days of uncomfortable silence, Oakland City Council President Ignacio De La Fuente has demanded and will receive a closed-door briefing next week on the Deborah Edgerly crisis at City Hall.

On Tuesday, during a strange press conference where he refused to answer any questions, Mayor Ron Dellums announced that the Edgerly would be allowed to retire from service as Oakland's highest non-elected public official on July 31.

According to this Oakland Tribune piece, De La Fuente said the council has not been provided with any pertinent information about the embattled Edgerly since the case broke wide open early last week.

Specifically, De La Fuente and his colleagues want to know more about the allegations that Edgerly interfered with an Oakland Police gang sweep June 7 involving her nephew.

The concern by authorities is that Edgerly may have tipped off her nephew about the sweep. She has denied any wrongdoing.

Oakland City Attorney John Russo will conduct the briefing for De La Fuente and his colleagues Monday. Because much of the case has been cloaked behind personnel confidentiality restrictions, it's not known how much more about the case will be publicly revealed.

Edgerly was appointed city administrator in 2004 by then-Mayor Jerry Brown, now California's current attorney general. She currently earns about $255,000 annually.

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