Overview
- The Stoughton Select Board placed Town Manager Thomas Calter and Police Chief Donna McNamara on paid administrative leave last month while an outside review proceeds.
- McNamara filed a harassment and discrimination suit in Norfolk Superior Court accusing Calter of gender-based mistreatment and of ordering her to destroy an internal report tied to the Sandra Birchmore inquiry.
- Stoughton Fire Fighters Local 1512 unanimously voted no confidence in Calter and court filings include documents showing the Public Works union took a similar step.
- The board hired the Edward Davis Company to conduct an independent investigation that Ed Davis says could take two months or longer and will rely on documentary and witness evidence.
- Calter has denied the allegations, said he is cooperating with the probe, and the dispute has prompted union labor filings and public demonstrations that could affect town governance and the handling of the Birchmore-related criminal matter.