AND THE HITS JUST KEEPS ON COMING!

I copied the following from a Facebook page.  I was thumbing through it, and the pins and needles were really going deep into me.  I decided to put it here, because I honestly believe that for most of you...your blood will come to a boiling point as you go through this.  I warn you now...It starts with the City owing another unplanned $500,000--and then...well...you will get the picture as you go along.

The following had not been doctored at all, and I do not think it is for the faint hearted.

New London faces big jump in insurance costs

The city will see a 10 percent increase in the cost of its liability and auto insurance policy and an increase in its deductible for that policy to $500,000, the city's finance director said Friday
DATE: 03/08/14 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content Settlement talks underway between NL and fired officer

Behind the scenes negotiations, with an eye towards a settlement, are ongoing between attorneys for the city and Thomas Northup, a former New London police officer fired for shooting and wounding the unarmed driver of a stolen ice truck.
DATE: 03/07/14 | CATEGORY: Nws Police/Fire Reports
Premium Content Intent to sue filed in New London trash compactor death

Attorneys representing the estate of Floyd G. Smeeton, the man who died Jan. 30 after apparently falling into the trash compactor at the city transfer station, this week notified the city that the estate intends to bring a wrongful death lawsuit...
DATE: 03/06/14 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content Former New London police officer claims in lawsuit against city that he was forced to quit

Roger Newton claims he was never interviewed or questioned by anyone from the police department as part of an internal investigation. He said it wasn't until Feb. 8 that he was told to report to Chief Margaret Ackley's office on Feb. 10. He resigned...
DATE: 02/25/14 | CATEGORY: Nws Police/Fire Reports
Premium Content Sources: No one manned compactor controls the day of fatality

On Tuesday morning, New London Mayor Daryl Finizio posted an announcement on his official Facebook page that the city's transfer station, which has been closed since a city resident was killed in a compactor accident Jan. 30, would reopen...
DATE: 02/12/14 | CATEGORY: Nws Local Columns
Premium Content Mediator to handle New London disputes with police

Hoping to end a stalemate and a settle some of a soaring number of police union grievances, the city and union have agreed to let an independent mediator handle future talks between the two sides.
DATE: 01/11/14 | CATEGORY: Nws Police/Fire Reports
Premium Content Top 10 stories of the year: Disorder at the NLPD

A continuing exodus of New London police officers, controversy over the K-9 unit, pending lawsuits, grievances, firings and clashes between the police union and the chief made for a tumultuous year.
DATE: 12/25/13 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content In New London: Police dogs for everyone

After reading about New London Police Chief Margaret Ackley's scary confrontation with the city police union lawyer - Mayor Daryl Finizio said he could hear the fear in her voice - I thought maybe the chief should be assigned a police...
DATE: 12/11/13 | CATEGORY: Nws Local Columns
Premium Content New London mayor: Police union spreading half-truths

Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio claims the police union has spread half-truths about what's going on behind closed doors between city and police union attorneys - further intensifying the acrimony between the city administration and union.
DATE: 12/04/13 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content The NLDC lives on

There were a lot of things that were hard to digest in this week's news that Renaissance City Development Association (the much-hated New London Redevelopment Corp., with a new name) is considering building a parking garage in New London's Fort...
DATE: 11/20/13 | CATEGORY: Nws Local Columns
Premium Content Union: New London officer on leave accused of leaks to media

Police confirmed on Tuesday that Officer David McElroy, who the union claims is the target of an internal investigation regarding a leak about a reported rape this summer, was placed on administrative leave last month.
DATE: 11/19/13 | CATEGORY: Nws Police/Fire Reports
Premium Content State: City must rehire officer fired for using excessive force

The state Board of Mediation and Arbitration has ordered the New London Police Department to rehire an officer who was fired last year for shooting an unarmed suspect on Aug. 24, 2011, after the man stole, then crashed an ice truck.
DATE: 10/31/13 | CATEGORY: Nws Police/Fire Reports
Premium Content City, EB reach deal in tax assessment disputes

Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio said Thursday that the city and Electric Boat have reached a settlement “in theory” over the disputed appraisal of the office complex owned by the submarine builder.
DATE: 08/23/13 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content Moving past prolonged K-9 debate

The New London City Council has made it clear on what size canine unit it wants in the city's police department - four dogs. Now the mayor should begin the process of implementing that decision and move on. This debate, layered with politics and...
DATE: 08/21/13 | CATEGORY: Op Editorials
Premium Content Attempt to block NL council goes too far

With the transition to a mayor-led form of governance from the former city manager-council system in New London disputes over responsibilities and authority were inevitable. Indeed they were frequent during the first year after the November 2011...
DATE: 08/03/13 | CATEGORY: Op Editorials
Premium Content EB workers seek places to park in Fort Trumbull

Electric Boat and New London are in negotiations to allow parking on two parcels of land in the Fort Trumbull neighborhood, including one that was the subject of a renowned eminent domain court battle.
DATE: 07/30/13 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content Republican candidate for New London council pulls out of race

A Republican candidate for City Council has pulled out of the race, saying he never intended to pursue a seat but was holding a place on the slate for a candidate yet to be determined.
DATE: 07/30/13 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content New London police dogs do often jump through cruiser windows

In a blog on its website, the law firm representing Todd Lynch, president of the New London police union, took issue with a column I wrote Friday outlining some of the problems with the controversial police dog program managed by their client,...
DATE: 07/24/13 | CATEGORY: Nws Local Columns
Premium Content Victims of police dog bites in New London are mostly black or Hispanic

When the NAACP last year shared some copies of citizen complaints against New London police, one that stood out as especially egregious described a 2009 incident involving police union President Todd Lynch.
DATE: 07/19/13 | CATEGORY: Nws Local Columns
Premium Content Go ahead Mayor Finizio, fire the police chief

For her new lawsuit against the city, New London Police Chief Margaret Ackley apparently did some lawyer shopping, not using the local attorney who has represented her so far in her long campaign to be compensated for the fact that one of the...
DATE: 07/03/13 | CATEGORY: Nws Local Columns
Premium Content NL police turmoil

That there is dysfunction, dissent and low morale within the ranks of the New London Police Department now appears beyond dispute. It was on display at a recent meeting of the Public Safety Committee of the City Council. It is clear in comments...
DATE: 07/01/13 | CATEGORY: Op Editorials
Premium Content Ackley sues, says city had 'scheme' to hurt her

Chief Margaret Ackley has filed a lawsuit against the mayor, the city and a city attorney alleging they had a “plan or scheme” to intentionally violate the terms of her contract to hurt her, both monetarily and emotionally.
DATE: 06/26/13 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content 'It still hurts': Fight to save home scars one Fort Trumbull family

In 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the City of New London to demolish one of its working-class neighborhoods to make way for economic development. Eight years later, Fort Trumbull remains empty.
DATE: 06/23/13 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content New London Police Department retires K-9 Buck, donates Bessie

Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio announced Thursday the retirement of one of the city's police dogs and the donation of another to a different police department.
DATE: 06/20/13 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content For Mariani, leading RCDA will be no joke

Linda Mariani is well aware that leading the RCDA, formerly the New London Development Corp., is a big undertaking. "I thought about this long and hard. I agonized over it," she said. "It's so controversial and I'm so thin-skinned. Things don't just...
DATE: 06/15/13 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News

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Premium Content New London development group RCDA getting new leadership

Michael Joplin, who was elected president of the New London Development Corp. in 2002 and has remained in the top spot overseeing the Fort Trumbull development project through an eminent domain lawsuit, is expected to step down Friday.
DATE: 06/10/13 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content City says Fort Trumbull development delayed

The first new construction in Fort Trumbull since the area became the focus of a national fight over eminent domain was delayed Thursday after developers apparently were unable to demonstrate financing for the $24 million Village on Thames project.
DATE: 05/17/13 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content SCADD client suing New London police, city for violation of rights, use of excessive force

A 32-year-old Storrs man who says he was beaten and pepper-sprayed by city police outside the Southeastern Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence detoxifcation center is suing the city, four police officers and two other New London employees in...
DATE: 05/09/13 | CATEGORY: Nws Courts
Premium Content Public needs facts about Fort Trumbull

New London's painfully protracted and often bitterly contentious attempts to revitalize the old Fort Trumbull neighborhood has for the past decade produced little but wholesale demolition, repeated disappointment, frustration, broken promises...
DATE: 04/30/13 | CATEGORY: Op Editorials
Premium Content Chief Ackley: Prepared to hand in her badge?

New London police Chief Margaret Ackley, who was hired with much fanfare in 2009 as the first female police chief but more recently has been at odds with the city over money, may be looking to retire.
DATE: 04/27/13 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content Road to downtown was long one for Coast Guard Museum

A dozen years and a series of obstacles have come and gone since the idea of creating the National Coast Guard Museum in New London first came up.
DATE: 04/05/13 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content Report: New London police officers punched, kicked suspect's head

A New London police officer and his supervisor punched and kicked a repeat domestic violence offender in the head as they struggled to take him into custody on March 13, leaving him with a black eye and a bruise on his forehead.
DATE: 03/29/13 | CATEGORY: Nws Courts
Premium Content New London police search minorities more often than whites

Blacks and Hispanics pulled over by city police are nearly twice as likely as whites to have their vehicles searched, according to an analysis by The Day of motor vehicles stops in 2011.
DATE: 03/03/13 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content New London police get opportunity to pick work hours

The city’s police union will try out a new system of “bid shifts” in February that will allow officers to pick their daily work shifts by seniority for three months at a time.
DATE: 01/28/13 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content Group suing New London over tax collections

The group Looking Out for Taxpayers has sued the city, alleging the municipality is illegally collecting taxes and paying its bills because it does not have an approved 2012-13 budget.
DATE: 01/24/13 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content Judge rejects NL's effort to throw out lawsuit against police chief

New London — A motion filed by the city and police chief to dismiss a lawsuit brought by police union President Todd Lynch was denied last month.
Filed in August, the motion was denied Dec. 14...
DATE: 01/14/13 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content Towns ask DOT to take over SEAT

Nine towns are asking the state Department of Transportation to take control of Southeast Area Transit in an effort to strengthen public bus service in the region.
DATE: 11/30/12 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content Petition for second referendum on New London budget submitted to city

The spokesperson for Looking Out for Taxpayers delivered petitions to City Hall Thursday morning with more than 850 signatures calling for a second referendum on the budget.
DATE: 10/26/12 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content NL taxpayers group submits petition for another budget referendum

New London — The spokesman for Looking Out for Taxpayers delivered petitions to City Hall Thursday morning with more than 850 signatures calling for a second referendum on the budget.
William...
DATE: 10/25/12 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content Finizio orders written reprimand of New London police chief over emails

Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio ordered a written reprimand for police Chief Margaret Ackley Monday.

The Ackley Disciplinary Report

DATE: 10/22/12 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News

Premium Content City residents eye petition for a second referendum on budget

New London residents are expected to start collecting signatures to force a second referendum on the 2012-13 budget, and Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio may not be able to stop it.
DATE: 10/13/12 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content New London concludes investigation of Ackley emails

Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio said Thursday that he conducted a predisciplinary hearing for Police Chief Margaret Ackley but will reserve his decision for about a week to allow her attorney time to pursue some "legitimate" questions.
DATE: 10/11/12 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content Leave it to the mayor

It's the executive's role to police the police.
DATE: 09/12/12 | CATEGORY: Op Editorials
Premium Content New London City Council panel could investigate Ackley

City Council could conduct its own investigation about the police union’s claims that the chief of police acted inappropriately in an email correspondence with a private citizen
DATE: 09/11/12 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content NL adjusting

Is a new normal emerging at New London City Hall?
DATE: 08/24/12 | CATEGORY: Op Editorials
Premium Content Mayor, City Council may see eye to eye on new ordinance

Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio has proposed an ordinance that would prevent the city from offering employees greater retirement compensation than is specified under collective bargaining agreements.
DATE: 08/22/12 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content New London City Council approves settlements with two police captains

The City Council accepted settlement agreements for two New London police captains Monday, ending a seven-month standoff over the terms of retirement for William Dittman and Michael Lacey.
DATE: 07/02/12 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content Deadline forces firefighter's attorney to file intent to sue New London

New London — An intent to sue has been filed against the city on behalf of firefighter Alfred Mayo, but Mayo’s attorney said Wednesday the filing is a "pro forma formality" and an official lawsuit...
DATE: 06/20/12 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content Alfred Mayo can now settle in for the work of firefighting

Alfred Mayo, the first black firefighter hired in New London in more than 30 years, won't need to wait to run into a burning building to prove himself.

And yet I have little doubt he will turn in a thoroughly professional performance on the...
DATE: 05/06/12 | CATEGORY: Nws Local Columns
Premium Content Mayo accepts city firefighting job, starts work Monday

Alfred Mayo said he is excited to start his career with the New London fire department and that he will begin working on Monday “with the great firefighters of New London.”
DATE: 05/03/12 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News



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Premium Content Goode files suit against New London, six officers

Lance Goode alleged in January that a city police officer planted drugs on him during an October 2010 arrest. The suit also alleges a second false arrest and excessive use of force.

Lance Goode's lawsuit

DATE: 05/02/12 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News

Premium Content New London police committee seeks probe of Ackley

The city's Police Community Relations Committee voted Tuesday to ask the City Council and Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio to investigate an "inappropriate" email sent last year from police Chief Margaret Ackley to Kathleen Mitchell, a local political...
DATE: 05/02/12 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content Hewett, NAACP call for Mayo to be rehired

State Rep. Ernest Hewett joined the president of the Connecticut NAACP and members of the legislature's Black and Latino Caucus to call on the city of New London to rehire black firefighter Alfred Mayo.
DATE: 04/24/12 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content Ex-NL officer won't be prosecuted for 2011 shooting

The state's attorney's office will not prosecute a city police officer who shot an unarmed suspect last August after the suspect allegedly stole an ice truck.
DATE: 04/21/12 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content Segar asks New London to uphold his settlement agreement

Former Deputy Police Chief Marshall Segar has written to the city asking it to abide by a settlement agreement it made with him in January, when his one-year contract was not renewed.
DATE: 04/18/12 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content Day should lay off the NL soap opera

I have subscribed to the The Day newspaper for many years and during my teen years I delivered this paper. Over the years I have developed a strong connection to The Day. Lately, the quality of the news has diminished. A prime example is the...
DATE: 04/09/12 | CATEGORY: Op Letters
Premium Content Pay retired officers

City Council is making a mistaking by holding up severance deal and inviting costly litigation by retired police officers.
DATE: 04/07/12 | CATEGORY: Op Editorials
Premium Content Former police captain sues New London

Former police Capt. Michael Lacey filed a lawsuit against New London Thursday, alleging city officials breached a retirement contract Lacey signed in January.

The Michael Lacey lawsuit

DATE: 04/06/12 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News

Premium Content Report: New London police officer made ‘poor decision' in shooting

A "poor decision" to shoot an unarmed suspect in a truck theft multiple times in August led to the March 22 firing of city police Officer Thomas Northup, according to an internal investigation completed by New London police Capt. Steven Crowley.
DATE: 04/02/12 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content City reaches financial settlement with survivors of 2003 shooting victim

New London has agreed to pay an undisclosed sum of money to the survivors of shooting victim David Romero to resolve a wrongful death/negligence lawsuit.
DATE: 03/27/12 | CATEGORY: Nws Courts
Premium Content The Feds are in New London

I will say this about New London's Mayor Finizio: He doesn't back down from a fight or shy away from a lawsuit.

On Thursday night, the NAACP, during its second meeting in two months called to discuss complaints against city police and city...
DATE: 03/25/12 | CATEGORY: Nws Local Columns
Premium Content The right decision

New London Mayor Finizio made a difficult decision, but it appears the right one, in firing officer involved in shooting.
DATE: 03/24/12 | CATEGORY: Op Editorials
Premium Content Mayor Finizio and Chief Ackley are good at laying blame

I came to the conclusion that New London had the wrong police chief back in the fall of 2010, when Matthew Chew was brutally murdered on his way home from the pizza restaurant where he worked downtown.

It wasn't that a young man was...
DATE: 03/23/12 | CATEGORY: Nws Local Columns
Premium Content New London cop fired for role in shooting

Officer Thomas Northup was dismissed for unauthorized use of force and unauthorized use of deadly force in the Aug. 24 shooting. The police union immediately filed a grievance.
DATE: 03/22/12 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content Separation deals with former New London police administrators defeated again by City Council

New London - For the third time, the City Council refused to appropriate extra money to pay for separation packages for three police administrators who left the police department in January.
DATE: 03/21/12 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content Fired New London firefighter trainee files complaint with human rights commission

New London - Alfred Mayo, who was fired just days before he was to graduate from the state fire academy, filed a complaint against the city last week with the state Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities, a...
DATE: 03/21/12 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content Complaints allege mistreatment by New London police

Complaints claiming NL police misconduct "I was taken from a vehicle and choked by police and given a ticket for no seat belt." This one-line complaint about treatment by New London police, filed in the spring of 2009 by someone who gave the...
DATE: 03/21/12 | CATEGORY: Nws Local Columns
Premium Content Fired black firefighter files complaint with human rights commission

New London – Fired black firefighter Alfred Mayo filed a complaint against the city last week with the state Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities (CHRO), a CHRO spokesman confirmed.

DATE: 03/20/12 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content Parade shows off New London's green pride

New London - Lenette and Eric Strong of New London said they wouldn't think of missing the city's annual St. Patrick's Day parade.

DATE: 03/18/12 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content Ackley's union standoff handcuffs city

Animosity between New London police chief and the department's union may be beyond fixing, writes Paul Choiniere.
DATE: 03/18/12 | CATEGORY: Op Columnists
Premium Content New London, police chief are targeted in lawsuit

One day after the city police union filed a complaint with the state labor board, union President Todd Lynch sued the city and Police Chief Margaret Ackley Thursday, alleging that Ackley punished him for being an outspoken critic.
DATE: 03/16/12 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content Union president Lynch sues New London, Ackley claiming retaliation

NEW One day after the city police union filed a complaint with the state labor board, union president Todd Lynch sued the city and Police Chief Margaret Ackley, alleging that Ackley punished Lynch for being an...
DATE: 03/15/12 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content Finizio backs Ackley's policies, despite lawsuit

Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio reiterated Thursday that he stands behind Chief Margaret Ackley's policies and leadership, despite a lawsuit and labor complaint filed by the police union president this week.
DATE: 03/15/12 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content For Finizio, first 100 days in office bring controversy but no apologies

Even before Daryl Justin Finizio officially became New London's first elected mayor in 90 years, he was breaking from tradition and doing things differently.
DATE: 03/14/12 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content Mayor Finizio's mistakes prove his incompetency

I do not live in New London but I question the doings of Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio. He is the most incompetent mayor I have ever heard of.

Here are a few of the many things he has done or has tried to do that have caused me to question his...
DATE: 03/12/12 | CATEGORY: Op Letters



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Premium Content Mended fences and needless lawsuits

All in all, it was a good day for the New London mayor.

On Thursday the Coast Guard and Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio jointly announced they will be working together to find a location in the city for construction of a National Coast Guard...
DATE: 03/10/12 | CATEGORY: Op Editorials
Premium Content Overhaul NL's police complaint process

The frustrations of New London's Police-Community Relations Committee are understandable, but its attempts to move its discussions about investigations of alleged police misconduct back behind closed doors is misguided and would not stand up to a...
DATE: 03/09/12 | CATEGORY: Op Editorials
Premium Content Former police captain targets city in lawsuit

Former New London police Capt. William Dittman, who retired from the police department after a 35-year career, is suing the city, alleging that the chief offered to pay him "any consideration necessary to induce him to retire.''
DATE: 03/09/12 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content Kilo's exit a trade-off and not a proud one

When Roger Newton, the city police officer accused of planting drugs on a suspect, resigned, Mayor Finizio agreed to let him buy his police dog for $500.

It was one of only six stipulations in the settlement agreement signed by Newton,...
DATE: 03/07/12 | CATEGORY: Nws Local Columns
Premium Content Union head suing city, police chief

New London Police Union President Todd Lynch, an outspoken critic of Police Chief Margaret Ackley, has filed an intent to sue the city and Ackley, alleging they violated his First Amendment right to free speech.
DATE: 02/28/12 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content New London police union president files intent to sue city, police chief

NEW Police Union President Todd Lynch, an outspoken critic of Police Chief Margaret Ackley, has filed an intent to sue the city and Ackley, alleging they violated his First Amendment right to free speech.
DATE: 02/27/12 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content Finizio's single biggest mistake

Even Mayor Finizio himself probably would admit to some mistakes since taking office late last year.

Some can be chalked up to inexperience. A few were inevitable, given the various constituencies he's trying to satisfy. Some he's tried to...
DATE: 02/24/12 | CATEGORY: Nws Local Columns
Premium Content After NAACP meeting, next steps critical

The "town hall" meeting hosted by the NAACP Tuesday provided more evidence that a U.S. Justice Department review is necessary to determine whether recent police misconduct is indicative of broader problems in the department.

Most alarming...
DATE: 02/23/12 | CATEGORY: Op Editorials
Premium Content Mediation under way in New London police wrongful death lawsuit

Attorneys for the City of New London and survivors of homicide victim David Romero are trying to resolve a civil lawsuit involving the police department through mediation.

DATE: 02/21/12 | CATEGORY: Nws Courts
Premium Content Jury selection to resume in NL lawsuit

Mediation between attorneys for the city of New London and the survivors of homicide victim David Romero appears to have ended without a settlement.

DATE: 02/21/12 | CATEGORY: Nws Courts
Premium Content Mediation underway in NL lawsuit

Attorneys for the city of New London and for survivors of homicide victim David Romero are trying mediation to resolve a civil lawsuit involving the police department.

DATE: 02/20/12 | CATEGORY: Nws Courts
Premium Content Ackley sought legal advice in immigration status inquiry

New London police Chief Margaret Ackley checked with an attorney for the city before making inquiries about the immigration status of a homicide victim and has been assured she has broken no city laws or executive orders.
DATE: 02/16/12 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content Ackley targeted for immigration probe

The New London police union says Chief Margaret Ackley should be placed on administrative leave for her alleged improper investigation into the immigration status of a man shot to to death in the city in 2003.
DATE: 02/11/12 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content Welcome to New London: Lawyer up

Mayor Finizio's Executive Order 004, issued with some fanfare Dec. 6, starts out with some happy language about New London being a diverse place, with people of a lot of different ethnic and religious and racial backgrounds. DATE: 02/10/12 | CATEGORY: Nws Local Columns
Premium Content NL police union wants Ackley placed on administrative leave

NEW The police union is calling for Chief Margaret Ackley to be put on paid administrative leave so the city can investigate a claim that she may have conducted an improper investigation into the immigration status of...
DATE: 02/10/12 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content Mayor Finizio Had a Bad Monday

Mayor FInizio had a bad day Monday, falling under attack by supporters of Riverside Park, the city police union and the Connecticut chapter of the NAACP
DATE: 01/31/12 | CATEGORY: David Collins
Premium Content NAACP seeking federal scrutiny of discrimination allegations in New London

Officials from the state and local branches of the NAACP are upset with what they call New London's poor track record with minorities and call for federal intervention.
DATE: 01/21/12 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content Ackley settlement fight will test city's charter

New London Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio and the City Council are both feeling out the limits of their authority under the new form of government, and the question of a $25,000 settlement for the police chief will be part of that process.
DATE: 01/10/12 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content Chief Ackley has complained about harassment before

Margaret Ackley files a complaint with the city, saying she is being harassed and is a victim of gender discrimination.

Ackley also says in her complaint that she has repeatedly complained about the way she was being treated and that no...
DATE: 01/08/12 | CATEGORY: Nws Local Columns
Premium Content Report: New London didn't allow discrimination against Police Chief Margaret Ackley

New London City Council President Michael Passero releases a report of an investigation into Police Chief Margaret Ackley's claims of interference and harassment against former Councilor Michael Buscetto III, raising questions about a proposed...
DATE: 01/08/12 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content NEW: Investigator found no discrimination against Chief Ackley

New London - A private investigator hired by the City Council to look into possible legal claims by the police chief against the city concluded that most of Chief Margaret Ackley's complaint derived from "political...
DATE: 01/07/12 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content New London City Council's access to report it commissioned on Ackley complaint denied

City Attorney Jeffrey Londregan told the council Tuesday that former Superior Court Judge Beverly Hodgson has filed a report on the allegations made by Chief Margaret Ackley against former City Councilor Michael Buscetto III. But when the council...
DATE: 01/04/12 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content Man shot in ice truck suing city, New London police officer

Curtis Cunningham of New Haven contends in a federal lawsuit filed Friday that Officer Thomas Northup "negligently discharged his weapon ... causing severe and grievous injuries, including spinal injury and paraplegia."
DATE: 12/21/11 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content Minority rights should not be subjected to a popular vote

The Day has recently questioned my use of the law to potentially stop the sale of Riverside Park before knowing the referendum's final results. The newspaper particularly criticized my willingness to thwart the "will of the people." Under...
DATE: 11/30/11 | CATEGORY: Op Op-Ed
Premium Content Answers to Chief Ackley's accusations still critical

Three weeks before the Democratic primary in the New London mayoral race, Chief Margaret Ackley tossed a political hand grenade into the process. She confirmed that she had negotiated a secret agreement with the administration outlining the terms...
DATE: 11/22/11 | CATEGORY: Op Editorials



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Premium Content Chiefs retain positions as mayor-elect goes forward

New London Mayor-elect Daryl Justin Finizio said it had been a pledge of his since January to keep both chiefs if elected, and that Police Chief Margaret Ackley and Fire Chief Ronald Samul have agreed to stay on.
DATE: 11/19/11 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content New London police chief drops ethics complaint vs. city councilor

New London - The Board of Ethics officially dismissed and closed the Ackley vs. Buscetto case Wednesday, the same night the first of three hearings on the issue was scheduled to take place.
DATE: 11/17/11 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content New London mayoral hopefuls backing police chief, but she isn't talking

Since the man who allegedly made police Chief Margaret Ackley's working life miserable was knocked out of the race for mayor in a primary Tuesday, what's happened to the chief's retirement plans? She isn't saying.
DATE: 09/16/11 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content Native son, newcomer vie to shape New London's future

City Councilor Michael Buscetto III received the Democratic Town Committee endorsement for mayor in July. Daryl Justin Finizio, who moved to New London 18 months ago, got enough signatures to challenge Buscetto in a primary Sept. 13.
DATE: 09/06/11 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News
Premium Content Deal has New London police chief staying on at least until end of year

Chief Margaret Ackley will remain at her post at least until Dec. 31, according to an agreement she has with the city, and when she retires she will be paid a lump sum of about $64,000.
DATE: 08/26/11 | CATEGORY: Nws Local News