John B. O'Reilly Committee accepted $2,260 from Dearborn Police Officers' Legislative Fund
In 2011, The Patch reported that Mayor O'Reilly pursued an amendment to the City's Charter to remove the minimum staffing procedures.
June, 2021 Detroit Free Press reported that Mayor O'Reilly dismissed the chairperson of the Dearborn Historical Commission after the chairperson published an article critical of Henry Ford's racism