ROCHESTER A growing number of elected officials and community leaders from throughout the area and state are signing a formal statement that calls for Rochester City Councilor Doug Lachance to resign in light of sexual abuse allegations made against him.
Somersworth City Councilor Crystal Paradis created the statement, which she said isn’t a petition, in response to a Foster’s Daily Democrat special report in which two adult men allege Lachance used his power as mayor roughly 20 years ago to groom and sexually abuse them when they were teens.
Should Lachance not resign, Rochester City Councilor Jeremy Hutchinson said he will motion for City Council to remove Lachance from office. He also said he will formally call on Rochester Mayor Caroline McCarley to schedule a special council meeting, well before the next regularly scheduled full council session on April 20, for councilors to conduct that removal vote.
Rochester ethics code project to get started after recent allegations
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Rochester School Board declines to investigate email access complaint
ROCHESTER The city School Board voted 10-1 Thursday not to investigate ethics complaints against Chair Paul Lynch, who abstained from the vote.
School Board member Karen Stokes had called for her board and City Council to investigate Lynch over her allegations of improper datamining.
A Rochester Police Department police investigation recently confirmed Lynch and Superintendent Kyle Repucci obtained information through the datamining of school district email accounts and district-provided devices used by Stokes, fellow board member Thom O’Connor and the head of the local teachers union. Police determined no laws were broken.