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Former Palmer Town Manger Charles Blanchard accepts interim town manager job in Williamstown
Updated Apr 14, 2021;
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His first day of work is Wednesday.
Williamstown Town Manager Jason Hoch announced in February that he would resign once an interim manager was in place.
His departure is partly related to allegedly not telling the Selectboard, in a timely manner, that a police sergeant had filed a complaint against the town’s police chief with Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination.
In August, Sgt. Scott McGowan then filed a federal lawsuit naming then police chief Kyle Johnson, Hoch, and the town as defendants.
The civil complaint alleged the police department “turned a blind eye to sexual assault and sex discrimination.”
Anne O Connor, who is a non-voting member of the interim chief advisory committee, told her colleagues on the Select Board that the search group has interviewed three applicants and is hoping to arrange a fourth interview. Outgoing Town Manager Jason Hoch asked the Select Board to form a search committee to make a recommendation to his office for the interim post after then-Chief Kyle Johnson resigned in December. After some initial uncertainty about the level of community interest in serving on the search committee, the town received 22 applications and appointed eight residents to the panel. O Connor said its work so far has been heartening.
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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. â The Williamstown Police Department has disciplined three officers for improperly using the stateâs criminal information database to look up records on as many as 20 people without having a legitimate âcriminal justice purposeâ to do so.
Searching records of individuals in this way is considered a violation.
Acting Chief Michael Ziemba said in a statement Friday that officers made unauthorized use of the Criminal Justice Information System. Ziemba did not specify in the statement why the officers made those searches, in this case into records with the Registry of Motor Vehicles.
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