Superintendent Search Committee Co-Chairs Claim Members Broke Privacy Promise, Open Meeting Law

NORWOOD, MA — Two members of the Norwood superintendent search committee claim that multiple members violated a privacy policy and possibly broke the open meeting law.

Michele Eysie-Mullen and Lisa Igoe, co-chairwomen of the committee said committee member Thomas Maloney called the references of a semi-finalist candidate who was not chosen for the final round, shared the names of other semi-finalist candidates with the school committee and discussed the search process in Town Hall, according to the Norwood Record.

The applications were reviewed by the committee in executive session and only the names of the finalists were announced.

The two also claim that members made an email thread with seven or eight members, which would be a violation of the open meeting law.

Maloney denied calling the references.

Attorney Joshua Coleman, counsel for the School Committee and the Norwood Public Schools, wrote a stern warning to 10 of the Search Committee members. Igoe and Eysie-Mullen said the alleged violations are being reviewed by the Attorney General's Office and the State Ethics Commission.

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