As it responds to a "deluge" of requests for assistance from alleged sexual harassment victims and employers seeking anti-harassment training, the state's anti-discrimination agency is calling on lawmakers to deliver a $500,000 funding increase in next year's budget.
Former State Police Superintendent Colonel Richard D. McKeon, one of several top law enforcement officials named in an explosive lawsuit by a state trooper who claims he was ordered to scrub incriminating details from an arrest report involving a prominent judge's daughter, fired back recently, claiming in his motion to dismiss that the trooper's allegations are "scurrilous" and "fail to state a claim upon which relief may be granted."
McKeon, who retired along with his second-in-command soon after State Trooper Ryan Sceviour filed a federal lawsuit alleging a planned cover-up launched by top Worcester County law officials resulted in him being issued a reprimand for including salacious details in his arrest report of Ali Bibaud, joined State Police Major Susan Anderson in denying that any conspiracy took place.
