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Ethan 193 Fry | Feb 16, 2018 6:44 pm
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Ansonia Assistant Superintendent Joseph DiBacco, Superintendent Carol Merlone, Board of Education Vice President Fran DiGiorgi, President William Nimons, and members Joseph Jeanette, Tracey DeLibero, and John Izzo.
Ansonia’s Board of Education released an agreement Friday that shows they will pay a former principal $75,000 to retire and promise not to sue them.
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Eugene Driscoll | Feb 16, 2018 2:52 pm
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The Seymour school superintendent issued a statement Friday blaming social media for prolonging a police investigation at the high school Thursday.
“This is an example of the negative impact the social media rumor mill can have on society. In this case, the communication and evolution of fake news negatively impacted the educational process in our school,” Superintendent Michael Wilson said.
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Ethan 193 Fry | Feb 14, 2018 10:25 pm
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Ansonia’s Board of Education formally accepted a letter of resignation Wednesday from high school principal Terri Goldson.
“It has been a pleasure and honor to serve the students, parents, staff and entire community as a teacher and administrator in the City of Ansonia,” Goldson wrote in the letter, his first public statement since being put on an unexplained leave in December.
“I wish Ansonia Public Schools continued success.”
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Eugene Driscoll | Feb 13, 2018 4:38 pm
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Derby Police Commissioners Thomas Lenart, Andrew Mancini, Sam Pollastro, and David Zabel, a lawyer working for the commission.
The Derby Police Chief released an agreement Tuesday that shows the city paying a former police officer about $4,500 while releasing the city from any possible lawsuits.
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Eugene Driscoll | Feb 11, 2018 7:21 pm
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Derby police union Vice President Frank DeAngelo, former Derby Police Officer Jordan Gochros, and John Miller, a lawyer representing Gochros at a meeting of the Derby Police Commission Jan. 29, 2018.
DERBY — The Derby Police Department will not release an internal affairs report about an officer who recently resigned after being arrested.
According to a letter from Derby Police Chief Gerald Narowski, the report is being kept from the public because the officer has objected to its release.
The Valley Indy has filed a complaint with the Freedom of Information Commission to compel the department and the officer to release the report.
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Ethan 193 Fry | Feb 8, 2018 9:02 pm
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When the state legislature approved the Connecticut Freedom of Information Act was 42 years ago, the following was read into the record:
“The legislature finds and declares that secrecy in government is inherently inconsistent with a true democracy, that the people have a right to be fully informed of the action taken by public agencies in order that they may retain control over the instruments they have created.”
Apparently that statement hasn’t reached 42 Grove St. in Ansonia, where the school board met Thursday.
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Ethan 193 Fry | Jan 30, 2018 4:37 am
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Derby police union Vice President Frank DeAngelo, former Derby Police Officer Jordan Gochros, and John Miller, a lawyer representing Gochros at a meeting of the Derby Police Commission Jan. 29, 2018.
A Derby police officer resigned from the force Monday after a three-hour, closed-door hearing before the city’s Police Commission.
Officer Jordan Gochros had been suspended without pay since last August, when New Haven police charged him with three misdemeanors in connection to a domestic incident during which he allegedly hit a woman.
On this very special episode of “Navel Gazing: The Valley Indy Podcast,” reporters Ethan Fry and Eugene Driscoll quiz Thomas Hennick on the ins and outs of the state’s Freedom of Information Act.
Tarek Raslan (left) the Democrat challenging Republican Mayor David Cassetti (right).
Officials with both major political parties in Ansonia re-filed campaign financing reports after the Valley Indy pointed out they had submitted incomplete documents.
Mayor David Cassetti’s campaign did not include some information about two fundraisers it held in its latest round of disclosures. And Democrats didn’t submit some of their donors’ employment information, a violation of state law.
The state’s Freedom of Information Commission meets June 14, 2017.
Derby’s Police Commission will go to court to keep the public from seeing a lawyer’s report detailing an investigation of a citizen’s complaint made against the police chief.
The state’s Freedom of Information Commission voted unanimously last month to order the city to release the document after determining it was a public document.
But the police commission — a three-member civilian oversight board — voted at a meeting July 10 to appeal the FOI Commission’s ruling, which could put the issue in front of a judge.
