Overview
- State Police assigned to the Plymouth County district attorney filed on July 2 for a clerk‑magistrate hearing to consider one count of assault and battery against Mayor Moises Rodrigues.
- The filing is tied to a June complaint by a 17‑year‑old Brockton High student who testified that Rodrigues grabbed her waist and pulled her closer during a May parade.
- A temporary harassment protection order was issued after a June 6 graduation confrontation and a judge declined to extend that order after the student’s June 22 testimony.
- Brockton Public Schools has opened an independent investigation and media reports describe a second, not fully confirmed, student complaint about Rodrigues’ behavior at a separate May event.
- If the clerk magistrate finds probable cause and a criminal complaint is issued the documents would likely become public and could raise new questions about Rodrigues’ role as mayor and school committee chair.