{"id":12458,"date":"2026-07-09T06:05:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T10:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=12458"},"modified":"2026-07-09T06:05:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T10:05:32","slug":"town-council-debate-on-public-disclosure-of-investigative-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=12458","title":{"rendered":"Town Council Debate on Public Disclosure of Investigative Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">7\/6\/2026 Londonderry Town Council debate regarding the requested disclosure of a completed investigation into allegations against Councilor Dan Bouchard and the Town Manager. Councilor Bouchard argues for the immediate release of the findings to ensure transparency and clear his name, citing the significant amount of taxpayer funds spent on the inquiry. While some members warn that withholding these documents could lead to expensive litigation, the Council Chair insists the report is not yet ready for public viewing and accuses Bouchard of a publicity stunt. The discussion highlights internal conflicts over confidentiality laws, potential redactions, and the public&#8217;s right to know about government misconduct allegations. Ultimately, the motion to release the investigative report fails following a narrow vote of 3-2. Councilors Dunn, Faber, and Combes opposed releasing the report councilors Bouchard and Paul were in favor of the release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Town Council Debate on Public Disclosure of Investigative Reports\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/24ofE1HxHOs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7\/6\/2026 Londonderry Town Council debate regarding the requested disclosure of a completed investigation into allegations against Councilor Dan Bouchard and the Town Manager. Councilor Bouchard argues for the immediate release of the findings to ensure transparency and clear his name, citing the significant amount of taxpayer funds spent on the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12459,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12458\/revisions\/12459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}