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May 25, 2022
WORCESTER – After a retrial sparked by a legal error, a Worcester Superior Court jury Friday awarded $885,000 to a Millbury official who alleged Worcester Sheriff Lewis G. Evangelidis' office fired him for reporting illegal campaign activity at the jail during the 2010 election.
May 25, 2022
A former employee of the Worcester County Sheriff's Office won more than $1.5 million Friday in a whistleblower lawsuit against the department, alleging that he was fired for reporting illegal political campaigning activity by employees in 2010.
April 19, 2022
BOSTON — The state Ethics Commission hearings into the so-called "Troopergate" scandal of 2017 continue Wednesday of this week.
December 29, 2021
An Oak Bluffs Police sergeant says he was forced to resign after alerting the chief and town leaders that a police assault rifle was missing, a letter from his attorney alleges. That rifle, a Bushmaster M4, was later reported found.
May 11, 2021
The mother of Sherilyn Hayes has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against Dalton and several current or former police officials, seeking as much as $3.7 million in damages. The action describes a lack of police response to reports from a neighbor that the young woman had threatened to harm herself after a domestic dispute. She was found dead Nov. 23, 2019.
December 10, 2020
BARNSTABLE — A Barnstable police officer filed a lawsuit against the town, police Chief Matthew Sonnabend, Deputy Chief Mark Cabral and Lt. John Murphy, saying he was pushed out of his job as a detective because of his age and for reporting Murphy for allegedly drinking on the job.
December 09, 2020
What happened to Danielle Clermont when she was a candidate for a job as a Tisbury Police officer in 2017 was wrong. What happened to her when she was a candidate for a job as a Westwood Police officer is disgraceful, and shows a pattern of behavior in the Tisbury Police Department that needs to be rooted out.
November 27, 2020
BOSTON — A former Tisbury police officer has sued the town and two department officials, alleging that they discriminated against her based on her race and sexual orientation during and after her time on the job.
November 24, 2020
A former Tisbury Police sergeant says she was discriminated against by fellow police officers because she is a Hispanic gay woman, according to a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Boston.
November 11, 2020
BOSTON — A Whitman police officer is suing the town, a former police chief and a former town administrator for $750,000, saying they discriminated against him and didn't accommodate his disabilities.
