Police Chief Sues Haymarket
Police chief sues Haymarket
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By JACLYN PITTS
jpitts@potomacnews.com
Saturday, May 6, 2006
Haymarket is facing a lawsuit nearly no one seems to know about, not even council members.
The town's police chief, James E. Roop, and Sgt. Gregory Breeden filed a lawsuit this week in Circuit Court against the town.
The lawsuit is the second filed against the small town within a week.
Former town auxiliary officer Charlie Proffitt filed a lawsuit against the town April 28, citing Freedom of Information Act violations.
Roop and Breeden's complaint outlines instances over the past few months when confidential documents have been leaked to the public via media outlets, or most recently, a controversial Web site.
Several newspaper articles are mentioned that included information not accessible through any public documents, according to the suit.
But the leaking hasn't stopped at newspapers.
With the emergence of the controversial forum Web site, www.townofhaymarket.info, the lawsuit alleges personnel documents have been leaked there, as well.
An April post on the site titled "Found in the trash!" displayed one page of a sexual harassment complaint investigation of Roop and Breeden that the town conducted through an attorney in 2005, according to the lawsuit.
The document has since been removed from the site.
"On information and belief, [Roop and Breeden] know that this document could not have been found discarded in the trash and allege that the document, clearly personal information from an official town file, was deliberately released to that Web site by unidentified [town official(s)]," the lawsuit states.
The lawsuit outlines other leaked documents and information, including a resignation letter from former town prosecutor Cynthia Dupray that made its way onto the Web site by an anonymous post.
Roop and Breeden want the town to stop allowing......
Police chief sues Haymarket
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Copy of Lawsuit filed against town by Chief Roop & Sgt. Breeden
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