DETROIT (AP) - The mayor of Detroit says he won’t discipline his chief of staff or two other officials who were involved in deleting emails about a prenatal health program supported by the city.

Mayor Mike Duggan says chief of staff Alexis Wiley, a former TV reporter, instead will undergo public records training.

Duggan spoke to reporters Tuesday, a day after Detroit’s inspector general said the group Make Your Date enjoyed special treatment from city hall. Ellen Ha said Wiley’s order to delete emails was “egregious” and “contrary to open government.”

The mayor says the order to delete emails was a “mistake in judgment” by Wiley to protect junior staffers from possible records requests by a Duggan critic. Duggan says they were going to “become part of the media circus.”

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