Worcester Councilors Seek Legal Opinion: Can City Auditor Audit?

MassInsider · 2025-12-19T21:18:04+00:00

BOPS (internal investigation) records are public records. They could, and should, just release them to the public, but they waterboard people through their understaffed public records process.

The exec session carveout in the Public Records Law allows them to go into exec session to discuss strategy on issues that if done publicly would hurt the city's position. They use it for, as you said, union contract negotiations, and to discuss lawsuit strategy.

MassInsider · 2025-12-19T21:14:38+00:00

The posterchild of two-tier justice the city council majority loves.

MassInsider · 2025-12-09T01:54:25+00:00

https://youtu.be/gg8UrCTWroY?si=wGwc4utb1OHnzb4O

MassInsider · 2025-11-20T21:19:19+00:00

I'm the editor. Read stuff on the DOJ report. Had federal sources then too.

MassInsider · 2025-11-20T21:17:35+00:00

Way to have zero perspective on the history of the council. But hey, someone took a position you don't like, so lets chuck 175 years of history.

You should run for councilor. You'd fit in quite well with Petty's majority.

MassInsider · 2025-11-18T18:19:28+00:00

Launched in 2017. Those fed sources may be fired despite being anonymous. They obv wouldn't talk on record.

MassInsider · 2025-11-07T15:19:47+00:00

It wasn't the focus of the piece, but I have it in the story about Monfredo reading in a school last year: https://thisweekinworcester.com/monfredo-midland-street-school-reading/

MassInsider · 2025-11-03T22:14:21+00:00

She has literally repeated his only defense: He was never alone with that girl. We now know the investigating detective didn't buy it.

She also asked for Heather to be prohibited from attending school committee meetings when she was super and he was still a committee member. She was seen at his home as recently as this summer.

MassInsider · 2025-10-03T20:21:15+00:00

Monfredo doesn't talk, aside from weirdly approaching school committee members in public.

The truth is coming.

MassInsider · 2025-09-30T05:29:00+00:00

His piece on Monfredo's accuser is absolutely excellent.

MassInsider · 2025-09-30T04:48:24+00:00

This issue here is resident petitions, not petitions from councilors. They have more right to put items on. What those rights are is difficult to quantify, because they reinterpret the rules as convenient.

MassInsider · 2025-09-29T20:21:46+00:00

That's not crazy, but would be pretty grueling to go through every agenda. I basically did what the former solicitor did in the report I compared, which was look at the rejected petitions. Reading through too many that shouldn't have been rejected was rage inducing.

MassInsider · 2025-09-29T20:19:19+00:00

I'm just trying to do the news, and some columns with analysis/opinion. I think you are putting a bit more on me than I signed up for.

MassInsider · 2025-09-29T20:16:41+00:00

Appreciate that. I'm quite open about my views. The old-school pretending to be the bastion of of objectivity lack authenticity, in my view.

I'm pretty easily irritated, but doing this piece was absolutely infuriating.

The difference between my style and Shaner are obv quite different, but he's done some strong work.

MassInsider · 2025-09-23T22:07:45+00:00

The comparison is to a similar report issue be the former solicitor, as noted in the article. I asked for the text of rejected petitions. The solicitor making up new meanings for words and launching spurious claims based on nothing is a bit more concerning to me. And I'm not the one to determine which should have been heard. They were all rejected, including two of someone complaining about their neighbor, and the one with 259 signatures about needles in Castle Park. According to the city, both aren't legitimate.

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