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A Racine tech firm filed a federal lawsuit against the city and Kenosha officials seeking $2 million in damages, part of an ongoing dispute over the handling of police department email.

ComSys, Inc. alleges the city breached their contract and violated firm owner Kathryne McAuliffe’s constitutional rights in the handling of a dispute over the city’s hiring of a ComSys executive and that executive’s actions with police department email.

The suit names the city, City Administrator Frank Pacetti, former Mayor Keith Bosman, and city aldermen.

The company provided information technology services for the city beginning in 1991. They entered into a second contract with the city Water Utility in 2007.

According to the lawsuit, those contracts continued through June 2015. Two years earlier, according to the suit, company executive Tig Kerkman, who was the lead IT contact for the city, “began to conspire” with Pacetti to create an in-house IT department led by Kerkman. The company alleges that this violated Kerkman’s employment contract.