Joseph Mokrisky States Select Facts

Joseph Mokrisky States Select Facts appears above “Joseph Mokrisky Signs Calter Contract Amendment Fourteen Days Before His Statement” in white text on a black title card.

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On July 28th, Stoughton Select Board Chair Joseph “Joe” Mokrisky didn’t hedge his purpose. Mokrisky told the room that Police Chief Donna McNamara’s contract “was renewed first”, Town Manager Thomas “Tom” Calter’s contract “was renewed, I believe, about a month and a half later”, and Calter’s renewal happened “before all this—before all this arose”. Mokrisky used the Select Board chair’s authority to present that chronology as fact.

Joe Mokrisky supplied his own standard.

“That’s it. I just wanted to state the facts so you’ll know them.”1

The facts come with dates. Donna McNamara and the Select Board executed her current agreement on July 1st, 2025, while Joe Mokrisky and Tom Calter signed Calter’s second amendment on July 14th, 2026. The 378-day interval wasn’t a month and a half.2

Joe Mokrisky fixed the chronology in his own public record when he signed the July 14th amendment.

The Week Mokrisky Left Out

Donna McNamara’s verified complaint dates the confrontation that tests Joe Mokrisky’s claim that Tom Calter’s amendment came “before all this arose”. McNamara alleges that Calter’s assistant called on July 6th, 2026, and arranged an unexpected meeting for 9:30 the next morning inside Calter’s office. McNamara alleges that Calter and Katherine “Kate” Feodoroff, counsel for the Town, confronted her on July 7th with an uninvestigated accusation, demanded that she resign “with dignity”, and threatened immediate termination.3

Joe Mokrisky and Tom Calter signed Calter’s second amendment one week later. On July 15th, Kate Feodoroff approved the amendment’s legal form. Calter’s amendment extended his appointment through September 10th, 2029, and made him eligible for a discretionary merit bonus of as much as $20,000. The Stoughton Select Board announced an executive session for negotiations with non-union personnel on its July 14th agenda. Stoughton’s agenda and Calter’s signed amendment identify no Select Board vote or authorization that produced his new terms.4

DatePublic Record
July 1st, 2025McNamara and the Select Board executed her agreement through June 30th, 2028.
July 6th, 2026McNamara alleges that Calter’s assistant scheduled the July 7th meeting.
July 7th, 2026McNamara alleges that Calter and Feodoroff demanded her resignation or threatened termination.
July 14th, 2026Mokrisky and Calter signed Calter’s second amendment.
July 15th, 2026Feodoroff approved the amendment as to legal form.
July 28th, 2026Mokrisky placed the amendment about a month and a half earlier and before the dispute arose.

Precinct 4 resident Ava McNamara, Donna McNamara’s niece, asked whether the renewals were recent. Joe Mokrisky compressed the timeline again: “There… I said about a month and a half ago, the Town Manager, and the Police Chief was before that.” Mokrisky’s July 14th signature preceded his statement by fourteen days, not the month and a half that would’ve landed around the middle of June. Mokrisky turned a two-week interval into a month and a half.

Ava McNamara returned to the Select Board’s prior contract discussion. Joe Mokrisky answered, “Whatever. Whoever said that didn’t have the correct information.” Ava McNamara’s reply landed on the source of the dispute: “All right. Thank you, but that was posted online off the town website.”

Arthur Smith Put The Documents In Public

Arthur Smith’s later post in the Stoughton News Facebook group changed the stakes by publishing sixteen images of Tom Calter’s original agreement, first amendment, and second amendment. Smith gave the public the signed instruments needed to weigh Joe Mokrisky’s words against documents instead of another person’s recollection. Stoughton News supplied the venue, while Arthur Smith supplied the records.

Arthur Smith made three errors, but none of them were fatal. Tom Calter’s first amendment states May 15th, 2024, as its agreement and effective date, but the signature page dates execution by Calter, Stoughton Select Board Vice Chair Stephen “Steve” Cavey, and Town Counsel to June 20th, 2024. Smith called the July 2026 amendment eighteen months early; July 14th, 2026, was 423 days — thirteen months and twenty-seven days — before the prior term’s September 10th, 2027, endpoint. Smith also said that Joe Mokrisky answered “no” when asked about the prior Select Board discussion. Mokrisky never used the word “no” during the complete exchange.5

Joe Mokrisky’s chronology still fails. The 2024 amendment would reverse his stated order because it came before McNamara’s 2025 agreement. The 2026 amendment preserves the order, but it destroys the interval and follows the July 7th confrontation described in McNamara’s complaint.

The Lawyers And Political Connections I Found

Mead, Talerman & Costa, LLC (MTC) serves as Stoughton’s municipal counsel. Town records identify firm partner Brian Winner as general counsel and Katherine “Kate” Feodoroff as counsel for labor contracts. Feodoroff’s firm biography lists labor negotiations and contract drafting among her practice areas.6

Kate Feodoroff and Tom Calter worked inside Kingston’s municipal government before Stoughton brought them together again. Kingston’s 2019 annual report identifies Calter as Town Administrator and Feodoroff as counsel for the Town, while April 27th, 2020, Wage and Personnel Board minutes record Feodoroff helping word motions and answering questions arising from Calter’s requests. Kingston kept Feodoroff as Town Counsel after Calter left in July 2020, so the records document municipal representation rather than personal representation or a role in Calter’s separation.7

Tom Calter’s original agreement and both amendments carry a Town Counsel signature under “Approved as to Legal Form” but omit the signer’s printed name. I compared the repeated Stoughton signature with Kate Feodoroff’s signature above her printed full name, Katherine McNamara Feodoroff, on a City of Haverhill agreement. The signature comparison identifies Feodoroff as Stoughton’s approving lawyer. Feodoroff also swore that she attended the July 7th meeting as counsel for the Town, supplying the name behind the “Town Counsel” in Donna McNamara’s complaint. Feodoroff denied any resignation demand, termination threat, or ultimatum, while McNamara alleges all three in her first amended verified complaint.8

The Political Search

Mead, Talerman & Costa, LLC (MTC) partner Lisa Mead served three terms as Mayor of Newburyport, worked as Somerville City Solicitor, served as U.S. Senator John Kerry’s Massachusetts State Director, and made six individual contributions totaling $1,475 to Governor Maura Healey’s campaign committee. Federal Election Commission records also connect MTC partner Jason Talerman to contributions supporting U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders and other Democratic candidates and committees. The campaign-finance records attach those contributions to Mead and Talerman as individuals without placing MTC or Stoughton’s contracts inside either contribution chain.9

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) supplies the initials in the MBTA Communities Law, the Commonwealth’s official name for Section 3A of the Zoning Act. MTC attorneys represented municipalities that challenged the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the Healey administration under that law. Massachusetts campaign-finance records list no Healey or Norfolk County District Attorney Michael Morrissey contributions from Brian Winner or Kate Feodoroff and no Morrissey contributions from Lisa Mead; the adverse litigation and bounded contribution records cut against a simple political-alliance theory.10

The political search produced overlaps instead of a smoking gun. Joe Mokrisky’s signature makes the network theory unnecessary. Mokrisky’s signature carries the contradiction.

The Motive Boiling Up From The Bottom

Donna McNamara’s first amended verified complaint carries the Birchmore question directly to Tom Calter instead of through Mead, Talerman & Costa, LLC (MTC). McNamara alleges that Calter repeatedly demanded destruction of a second Birchmore-related report, called it a “hit piece”, and later learned that her cooperation with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) could uncover misconduct requiring new internal-affairs investigations. McNamara’s complaint places a matter-specific motive inside the court record instead of a contribution chart.

Brian Holmes became Stoughton Police Department Deputy Chief under Police Chief Donna McNamara on June 22nd, 2017, and began serving as Kingston Police Chief on April 15th, 2024. A Massachusetts Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission (POST Commission) decision states that McNamara assigned Holmes to investigate former Stoughton Police Officer Matthew Farwell after the Massachusetts State Police (MSP) alerted her to troubling communications connected to Sandra Birchmore. Tom Calter and McNamara both supported Holmes’s candidacy. Kingston placed the advertised search with Public Safety Consultants and advanced Holmes through interviews, an assessment center, background checks, and a public vote. Kingston Police Sergeant Ryan Calter, Tom Calter’s son, served in the department during the search. Kingston’s appointment packet doesn’t place Ryan Calter inside the working group or selection stages. The Kingston Board of Selectmen — not Tom or Ryan Calter — appointed Holmes as Police Chief.11

I first read Tom Calter’s conduct as a general fight for control over his fiefdom. Donna McNamara’s Birchmore allegation adds a possible matter-specific motive. Tom Calter could’ve wanted McNamara out because independent authority threatened his control, because her report and FBI work threatened something more specific, or because both pressures met in the same office; this one is boiling up from the bottom.

Joe Mokrisky Took A Direct Role

Brian Winner’s affidavit adds another chronology problem after Donna McNamara sued. Winner and the attached agenda identify a July 29th executive session, while the attached Certificate of Vote says that the Stoughton Select Board acted on July 30th, one day later than the agenda. Either date falls after Joe Mokrisky told residents on July 28th that he only wanted “to state the facts”.

Joe Mokrisky moved to authorize an independent investigation into the complaint against Donna McNamara. The Stoughton Select Board authorized Mokrisky, in consultation with Town Counsel, to identify and retain the investigator, negotiate and execute the engagement, and coordinate the investigation’s administrative work. Mokrisky also moved to place McNamara on paid administrative leave retroactive to July 7th, authorize Mokrisky or his designee to deliver her notice, and appoint James O’Connor as Acting Police Chief.

Joe Mokrisky became a direct actor in Donna McNamara’s removal from active command when he moved for her leave and received authority over the investigation’s practical route.12

The Symbols Mokrisky Chose

I met Joe Mokrisky at a Starbucks in Canton during summer 2025 because his blue Ford Explorer carried the older Protect and Serve plate — the style that displayed a Massachusetts State Police (MSP) trooper’s campaign hat. The campaign hat caught me off guard because Norfolk County District Attorney Michael Morrissey’s office and the Starbucks both sat in Canton, so I posited that Mokrisky might’ve been an older MSP detective attached to Morrissey’s unit. My nosiness produced a half-hour conversation at the door of Mokrisky’s vehicle.

Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV) materials say that the previous Protect and Serve design featured an MSP trooper’s hat and that anyone can obtain the plate. The State Police Association of Massachusetts promoted that same design, and plate fees support its Benevolent Fund for first responders and their families. The older plate documents Mokrisky’s deliberate display of MSP imagery, not MSP employment or a relationship with Morrissey.13

In 2017, Joe Mokrisky acknowledged asking Stoughton’s Department of Public Works (DPW) to replace the blue sign honoring his uncle, Korean War veteran Kenneth Mokrisky, with a black sign. Stoughton traditionally used blue for veterans who returned and black for residents killed in action, although the Town had no written color rule and some black signs honored veterans who hadn’t died in combat. The finished replacement sign falsely identified Kenneth Mokrisky as killed in action. Stoughton’s Board of Selectmen unanimously asked Mokrisky to apologize and reimburse the $74.07 cost after investigating the alleged conduct, but Mokrisky said that he requested the black color but never the false words. The CBS Boston and Patch reports identify no source for those false words. The plate and sign show Mokrisky choosing public-service symbols whose authority can exceed what the facts support. The phrase “Thin Blue Line” keeps repeating in my head because Joe Mokrisky seems to love police authority.14

Joe Mokrisky’s Own Handcuffs

Stoughton Media Access Corporation (SMAC) alleges that Joe Mokrisky entered its facility uninvited on October 29th, 2024, berated its station manager and a videographer, and demanded political credit in a Logistics Park video. SMAC alleges that Mokrisky threatened to “go to war over it” and told the employees that “if it were anyone else but you, I’d be leaving here in hand cuffs”. Mokrisky’s grammar put him — not his target — in the handcuffs.

Former Stoughton Police Officer Bryan Mokrisky, Joe Mokrisky’s son, quit the department on June 23rd, 2023 — sixteen months before his father’s alleged remark. Stoughton employed Bryan Mokrisky as its civilian Public Safety Wellness Coordinator by October 2024. Joe Mokrisky’s handcuffs line therefore followed Bryan Mokrisky’s police service but landed during his civilian public-safety role.

Joe Mokrisky’s sentence suggested that a different target might’ve faced conduct serious enough to get Mokrisky arrested, while SMAC says that its videographer cried and requested reassignment away from Select Board coverage after Mokrisky’s outburst. SMAC removed and re-edited the video, then barred Mokrisky, installed security cameras, and secured its entrance. The court’s October 2025 preliminary-injunction order didn’t determine whether those confrontation allegations were true.15

The Sensitive Channel Within Stoughton Town Hall

Police Chief Donna McNamara announced Bryan Mokrisky’s June 22nd, 2017, swearing-in as an officer with the Stoughton Police Department (SPD). Deputy Chief Brian Holmes took his oath during the same ceremony and began serving as Kingston Police Chief on April 15th, 2024. Bryan Mokrisky spent the next six years inside SPD under McNamara’s command and says that he quit policing on June 23rd, 2023.

The Town of Stoughton employed Bryan Mokrisky as its civilian Public Safety Wellness Coordinator by August 6th, 2024. Stoughton’s 2025 annual report listed him inside the Department of Human Resources, while current Town materials place the position inside the Public Health Collaborative and Bryan Mokrisky’s office in Town Hall’s basement. Town materials describe the position as separate from the police and fire departments.16

Bryan Mokrisky’s SPD service overlapped directly with Police Chief McNamara, Deputy Chief Holmes, Police Officers Robert Devine, Matthew Farwell, and William Farwell, and civilian Animal Control Officer Joshua Heal. Stoughton employed Heal from March 6th, 2016, until 2020. Heal later joined the Abington Police Department, where he served as a police officer and School Resource Officer.

Police Chief McNamara later ordered and Deputy Chief Holmes conducted SPD’s Birchmore internal investigation into conduct or statements involving Devine, both Farwell brothers, and Heal. A Massachusetts Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission (POST Commission) decision doesn’t identify Bryan Mokrisky as an investigator, witness, participant, or recipient of Birchmore-related information. Bryan Mokrisky’s documented overlap stops at departmental service; the decision assigns him no investigative role.17

Bryan Mokrisky says that Stoughton’s wellness program began in November 2023. The timing placed his civilian service after Devine, both Farwell brothers, and Heal had left Stoughton, but while McNamara remained Chief and Holmes remained Deputy Chief. Stoughton says that the program offers resources directly to every police and fire department member.

Bryan Mokrisky said that his seven years with SPD gave him “trust and connection” with officers and that he visits firehouses to get to know Stoughton’s firefighters. A podcast host described individual outreach to Bryan Mokrisky as the program’s objective and stressed that the support “has to be confidential”, and Bryan Mokrisky agreed. Stoughton therefore gave Bryan Mokrisky recurring access to sensitive personal disclosures from its first responders.

Bryan Mokrisky’s acknowledged access includes recurring and confidential disclosures from Stoughton’s first responders. Stoughton made Bryan Mokrisky a recipient of those disclosures, and Joe Mokrisky’s chairmanship and later investigation authority turn the two men’s separate access channels into a public-governance question. Stoughton hasn’t publicly identified the wellness coordinator’s complete reporting chain, confidentiality duties, record-retention rules, information firewalls, or system permissions.18

Bryan Mokrisky appears in none of the six court filings through July 30th, and those filings assign him no role in Donna McNamara’s attempted removal. Kate Feodoroff identifies the July 5th complainant as a Stoughton police officer, and the Town calls the complainant a subordinate police officer, but Bryan Mokrisky had left SPD in 2023 and held a civilian position outside the department. Brian Winner’s authenticated Select Board records place Joe Mokrisky — not Bryan Mokrisky — inside the late-July investigation, administrative-leave, and acting-chief route.19

Joe Mokrisky publicly praised Bryan Mokrisky and moved to establish the special donation account supporting his son’s program. The Stoughton Select Board approved Joe Mokrisky’s motion five to zero. Joe Mokrisky’s chairmanship supplied collective governance access, and the later Certificate of Vote gave him specific authority over the investigation into Donna McNamara. Bryan Mokrisky held a separate recurring trust channel to Stoughton’s public-safety workforce. Stoughton still owes the public a concrete account of Bryan Mokrisky’s authorized access, his recordkeeping, his supervisor, the officials permitted to receive program information, and the firewalls that keep wellness disclosures outside unrelated Town decisions.20

The Outer Rings Stay Outer

Bryan Mokrisky worked for the Norfolk Sheriff’s Office (NSO) in 2015 and 2016 while Norfolk County District Attorney Michael Morrissey led the Norfolk District Attorney’s Office. Norfolk Sheriff Michael Bellotti controlled the Norfolk County Correctional Center (NCCC) in Dedham, while Morrissey’s Massachusetts State Police (MSP) detective unit worked from Canton. A December 2016 jail-smuggling investigation brought two MSP detectives assigned to Morrissey’s office into NCCC to work with NSO personnel. The Norfolk District Attorney’s Office and Norfolk Sheriff’s Office documented institutional movement between the Canton unit and the Dedham jail in their joint release. The release doesn’t name Bryan Mokrisky as a participant in that operation.21

Stoughton High School graduated future MSP Detective John Fanning in 1998, future MSP Trooper Yuriy “Yuri” Bukhenik in 2002, and future Stoughton Police Officer Bryan Mokrisky in 2010. The 2008 yearbook supplies the only documented school overlap: Bryan Mokrisky appears as a student while Fanning appears as a golf coach. The yearbook places Bryan Mokrisky inside the school but doesn’t list him on Fanning’s team or document contact with Fanning.

The Commonwealth’s payroll places Fanning with MSP in 2010, seven years before Bryan Mokrisky’s June 22nd, 2017, Stoughton Police Department (SPD) swearing-in. An official academy roster places Bukhenik’s MSP graduation on March 9th, 2012, more than five years before Bryan Mokrisky joined SPD; no reviewed record places Bukhenik inside SPD. The dated routes establish Stoughton recurrence without placing Bryan Mokrisky inside the police work of Fanning or Bukhenik.22

A Tyrant Can Turn Weaknesses Into Obedience

Stoughton Select Board Member Steve Cavey placed three weaknesses in the public record: ambition, deference, and absence. Cavey’s February 10th campaign filing says that he’s running to represent the Sixth Norfolk District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, while his June 18th campaign post calls Tom Calter “a mentor and a friend”. I ended my last piece with a test: “If Cavey wants a seat on Beacon Hill, he can start by using the one in Stoughton.”

Stoughton Select Board Members Joe Mokrisky, Debra Roberts, and Scott Carrara faced the room while Select Board Member Lori Jacques participated through a virtual connection. The camera showed two empty physical seats, but Steve Cavey alone never answered the roll call. The seat Stoughton had already given Cavey was empty in every sense that mattered that night.

Steve Cavey turned Tom Calter’s mentorship into a campaign credential. The Town of Stoughton Charter places the Town Manager under the Select Board, while Cavey’s campaign places a Select Board member beneath the Town Manager’s mentorship. A supervisor who campaigns on his subordinate’s political approval has already surrendered the strongest part of supervision.23

Mokrisky’s Own Standard

Joe Mokrisky’s 2026 chairmanship is one chapter in a longer but interrupted record. Mokrisky first won a Board of Selectmen seat in 1992. In 2012, he told Patch that he’d already served twelve years, but voters defeated his reelection bid that April. Stoughton voters returned Mokrisky for a fifth term in 2014, Mokrisky didn’t seek reelection in 2017, voters returned him again in 2019, and his current term runs through April 2028. Mokrisky’s 2012 answer therefore wasn’t a novice’s aspiration; it was a veteran officeholder’s standard.

Joe Mokrisky had already defined the relationship he wanted between a Select Board and a Town Manager. In a 2012 Patch candidate questionnaire, Mokrisky called “working as a team with the Town Manager” the Board’s most important role. Mokrisky warned selectmen against “telling him or her how to do the job” and called criticism of his Town Charter quotations a “badge of honor”. In 2026, Mokrisky signed Tom Calter’s amendment, supplied the false chronology himself, and brushed away Ava McNamara’s return to the Town’s record. A falsehood gives a tyrant power when correcting the story also exposes its author.24

Tom Calter didn’t need every Select Board member to share the same motive. Steve Cavey’s ambition, deference to Calter, and empty Board seat supplied three weaknesses; Joe Mokrisky’s false chronology supplied a separate weakness. A failed fiefdom doesn’t need a strong court; it needs odious members whose character weaknesses can be twisted into obsolescent obedience by a twisted tyrant.

I Need To Correct My Own Record

I joined the July 28th meeting through Google Meet and told the Stoughton Select Board that Tom Calter had a relationship with Michael Morrissey because “they served together in the House for five years”. I was wrong about the offices and the length of the overlap. I’ll hold myself to the same standard I’m applying to Joe Mokrisky.

Tom Calter served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 2007 through 2018. Michael Morrissey served in the Massachusetts Senate from 1993 through 2010. Tom Calter and Michael Morrissey overlapped in different chambers of the Massachusetts General Court from 2007 through 2010.

I checked my prior piece because I thought I might’ve repeated the same error. I hadn’t: that piece says Tom Calter and Michael Morrissey overlapped on Beacon Hill from 2007 through 2010. The video and its closed captions will preserve every word I said; this article corrects the statement without altering the record.25

The Question Mokrisky Still Has To Answer

Stoughton Fire Department Lieutenant and Paramedic Jay McNamara, Donna McNamara’s younger brother, challenged Joe Mokrisky immediately after the contract exchange and sharpened the chronology into an accusation: “If you’re willing to lie about that, what else are you willing to lie about?”

Jay McNamara called Joe Mokrisky a liar. I agree, but my judgment rests on more than a bad date. Mokrisky signed the July 14th amendment, misstated its timing fourteen days later, and dismissed Ava McNamara’s Town-record correction with one word: “Whatever.”

Joe Mokrisky’s first answer left room for a mistake. Ava McNamara gave him a chance to stop, check, and correct the record, but Mokrisky doubled down and declared the contrary information wrong. A mistake can survive the first sentence; a lie begins when a public official protects the falsehood after the record reaches the room.

Stoughton’s residents shouldn’t need a Facebook photo set, a signature comparison, a court complaint, a Stoughton Select Board agenda, and three video clips to reconstruct two employment agreements. The Board should publish each agreement’s dates, identify the lawyers who approved its legal form and the votes that authorized it, and separate the events before July 7th from the Board’s later signatures. Joe Mokrisky can begin by explaining what records he reviewed before he said he was stating the facts.

Joe Mokrisky wanted Stoughton to know the facts. The facts now identify the dates, the signature, and the answer he dismissed. Joe Mokrisky owes Stoughton the correction he refused to make in the room.

Source Notes

  1. Town of Stoughton, “Stoughton Select Board — 2026-07-28”, July 28th, 2026. The complete meeting video records Joseph Mokrisky’s contract chronology, Ava McNamara’s follow-up questions, Lori Jacques’s remote participation, Steve Cavey’s failure to answer the roll call, Jonathan Bowen’s public comment, and Jay McNamara’s challenge. Ava identifies herself in the video as a Precinct 4 resident. The Stoughton Fire Department roster identifies Jay as a lieutenant and paramedic, while a 2013 department report identifies him as Donna McNamara’s younger brother and Ava as his daughter. ↩︎
  2. Town of Stoughton and Thomas Calter, employment agreement and first and second amendments, 2022–2026, reproduced among the sixteen images in Arthur Smith’s Stoughton News Facebook post; Donna M. McNamara v. Town of Stoughton and Thomas C. Calter, Norfolk Superior Court No. 2682CV00852, Attachment B to the verified complaint, filed July 27th, 2026. McNamara’s agreement states a July 1st, 2025, execution date and a June 30th, 2028, endpoint. Calter’s second amendment carries July 14th, 2026, signatures from Calter and Mokrisky, July 15th approval as to legal form, a September 10th, 2029, endpoint, and a discretionary merit bonus of as much as $20,000. ↩︎
  3. Donna M. McNamara v. Town of Stoughton and Thomas C. Calter, Norfolk Superior Court No. 2682CV00852, verified complaint and jury demand, filed July 27th, 2026; first amended verified complaint and jury demand plus affidavit of Katherine McNamara Feodoroff, filed July 30th, 2026. McNamara alleges that Calter and Town Counsel demanded her resignation and threatened termination during the July 7th meeting. Feodoroff identifies herself as the Town’s counsel at that meeting and denies any resignation demand, termination threat, or ultimatum. The amended complaint also alleges that Calter demanded destruction of a second Birchmore-related report and later learned that McNamara’s Federal Bureau of Investigation work could require new internal-affairs investigations. The competing sworn accounts and the amended allegations have not been adjudicated. ↩︎
  4. Town of Stoughton, Select Board agenda, July 14th, 2026; Town of Stoughton and Thomas Calter, second amendment to employment agreement, signed July 14th and approved as to legal form July 15th, 2026. The agenda noticed an executive session for negotiations with non-union personnel. The agenda and signed amendment do not identify the Select Board vote or other authorization that produced Calter’s new terms. ↩︎
  5. Arthur Smith, Stoughton News Facebook-group post, observed August 7th, 2026. Smith published sixteen images of Calter’s original agreement and two amendments. The first amendment states May 15th, 2024, as its agreement and effective date but carries June 20th, 2024, signatures. The second amendment was signed 423 days before the prior term’s September 10th, 2027, endpoint. The complete July 28th video records Mokrisky saying “Whatever” and declaring the contrary information wrong, but it does not record him answering “no”. ↩︎
  6. Town of Stoughton, Committee of Finance and Taxation minutes, March 12th, 2026, and School Committee minutes, June 17th, 2025; Mead, Talerman & Costa, LLC, firm description, Brian Winner biography, and Katherine M. Feodoroff biography. The Town records identify Winner as general counsel and Feodoroff as counsel for labor contracts. Feodoroff’s firm biography identifies labor negotiations and contract drafting among her practice areas. ↩︎
  7. Town of Kingston, 2019 Annual Town Report, Wage and Personnel Board minutes, April 27th, 2020, and 2020 Annual Town Report. The records identify Calter as Town Administrator and Feodoroff as counsel for the Town, record their participation in the same April 2020 meeting, and show Feodoroff continuing as Town Counsel after Calter’s July 2020 departure. The records establish municipal representation rather than personal representation or Feodoroff’s participation in Calter’s separation. ↩︎
  8. City of Haverhill, comprehensive agenda, June 3rd, 2025; affidavit of Katherine McNamara Feodoroff in McNamara v. Town of Stoughton and Thomas C. Calter, filed July 30th, 2026. The Haverhill agreement displays Feodoroff’s signature above the printed name Katherine McNamara Feodoroff. The signature matches the unnamed legal-form signature on Calter’s Stoughton agreement and both amendments, while Feodoroff’s affidavit independently identifies her as counsel for the Town at the July 7th meeting. The signature attribution remains a visual comparison because the Stoughton instruments omit the signer’s printed name. ↩︎
  9. Mead, Talerman & Costa, LLC, Lisa L. Mead biography; Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance, Lisa Mead contributions to Maura Healey’s committee, reviewed August 7th, 2026; Federal Election Commission, individual-contribution search, reviewed August 7th, 2026. Mead’s biography supplies her Newburyport, Somerville, and John Kerry roles. The state records identify six Mead contributions totaling $1,475 to Healey’s committee, while identity-bounded federal records connect Jason Talerman to Bernie Sanders and other Democratic candidates and committees. The records describe individual contributions rather than firm contributions or influence over Stoughton contracts. ↩︎
  10. Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Town of Middleton v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts materials and related filing; Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance, recipient-specific searches for Healey committee CPF 15710 and Morrissey committee CPF 10320, reviewed August 7th, 2026. The court records place Mead, Talerman & Costa attorneys in litigation adverse to the Commonwealth and the Healey administration under the MBTA Communities Law. The named contribution searches returned no Healey or Morrissey record for Winner or Feodoroff and no Morrissey record for Mead. The search result is limited to the queried identities and committees and does not exclude every political contact. ↩︎
  11. Massachusetts Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission, Robert Devine Case No. 2024-003-P, decision issued December 18th, 2025; Town of Kingston, Chief of Police recruitment notice, October 12th, 2023, February 8th, 2024, meeting record, and March 26th, 2024, minutes; Kingston Police Department, May 12th, 2024, roster; Jim Farrell, Patch, “Birthday Fundraiser for State Rep. Tom Calter on August 22 in Kingston”, August 8th, 2013. The POST Commission decision identifies Holmes’s Birchmore-related internal investigation. Kingston’s records identify the advertised search, outside consultant, working group, forty applicants, interviews, assessment stages, background checks, Board appointment, April 15th start date, and Ryan Calter’s department service. The Patch notice identifies Ryan as one of Tom and Patty Calter’s children. Holmes told Kingston that his current Police Chief and Town Manager supported his candidacy, but the appointment packet does not place Ryan Calter inside the working group or selection stages. ↩︎
  12. Affidavit of Brian Winner with attached Select Board agenda and Certificate of Vote, McNamara v. Town of Stoughton and Thomas C. Calter, filed July 30th, 2026. Winner authenticates motions by Mokrisky authorizing the investigation, Mokrisky’s role in retaining and coordinating the investigator, McNamara’s retroactive paid leave, the leave-notice route, and James O’Connor’s acting appointment. The affidavit and agenda identify a July 29th executive session, while the certificate dates the votes July 30th. Both dates follow Mokrisky’s July 28th public statement. ↩︎
  13. Jonathan Bowen’s firsthand account supplies the summer 2025 encounter, Mokrisky’s blue Ford Explorer, the older Protect and Serve plate, and the half-hour conversation at the vehicle door. Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles, EVR Plate Manual; State Police Association of Massachusetts, “Honor the Sacrifice with ‘Protect & Serve’ Special Plates — Now Available”, November 2nd, 2017. The Registry says that anyone can obtain the plate, and the Association displays the former design with a State Police campaign hat. The account includes no photograph, plate number, or exact date, and the plate does not establish State Police employment or a Morrissey relationship. ↩︎
  14. CBS Boston, “Memorial Sign Change Angers Stoughton Veterans”, May 29th, 2017; Daniel Libon, Patch, “Selectmen, Some Veterans Upset Over Change In Mokrisky Square Sign”, May 31st, 2017, and “Mokrisky Says ‘Killed In Action’ Mark On New Sign Was Error”, June 1st, 2017. The reports record the local sign-color tradition, the finished false wording, the Board’s unanimous response, the $74.07 reimbursement request, Mokrisky’s acknowledged black-color request, and his denial that he requested the combat-death language. Neither report identifies the source of the false wording. ↩︎
  15. Stoughton Media Access Corporation v. Town of Stoughton, No. 1:25-cv-10886, complaint, filed April 10th, 2025, and memorandum and order, filed October 9th, 2025; Town of Stoughton, Select Board minutes, August 6th, 2024. The complaint contains SMAC’s October 29th, 2024, confrontation allegations, including the quoted handcuffs remark and the alleged effects on the employees and facility. The preliminary-injunction order did not adjudicate those allegations. The Town minutes record Bryan Mokrisky’s statement that he left policing June 23rd, 2023, and identify his later civilian wellness role. ↩︎
  16. Stoughton Police Department information published by Patch, “Stoughton Police Name New Deputy Chief”, June 21st, 2017; Town of Kingston, March 26th, 2024, minutes; Town of Stoughton, 2025 Annual Town Report, Public Safety Wellness Program FAQs, and Summer 2026 newsletter. The records place Bryan Mokrisky and Holmes in the June 22nd, 2017, swearing-in ceremony, establish Holmes’s April 15th, 2024, Kingston start, and place Bryan Mokrisky’s civilian position within Stoughton’s Human Resources and Public Health Collaborative records while describing it as separate from the police and fire departments. ↩︎
  17. Massachusetts Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission, Robert Devine Case No. 2024-003-P, decision issued December 18th, 2025; U.S. Department of Justice, United States v. Matthew Farwell indictment, filed August 2024; Massachusetts Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission, William Farwell voluntary decertification agreement; Joshua Heal, memorandum supporting his motion to dismiss. The records establish Bryan Mokrisky’s overlapping Stoughton service with McNamara, Holmes, Devine, Matthew Farwell, William Farwell, and Heal. The POST Commission decision does not identify Bryan Mokrisky as a Birchmore investigator, witness, participant, or recipient of case information. ↩︎
  18. Town of Stoughton, Select Board minutes, August 6th, 2024, Public Safety Wellness Program FAQs, and 2025 Annual Town Report; “Bryan Mokrisky — Prior Law Enforcement, Public Safety Wellness Coordinator”, H.O.P.E. Beyond the Badge, February 28th, 2025. The Town records describe program-wide resources for every police and fire department member. Bryan Mokrisky describes weekly outreach, “trust and connection” from his police service, firehouse visits, and a program that began in November 2023; he agrees when the host says that individual support “has to be confidential”. The cited public materials do not identify the position’s complete reporting chain, confidentiality duties, retention rules, information firewalls, or technical system permissions. ↩︎
  19. McNamara v. Town of Stoughton and Thomas C. Calter, original complaint plus the July 30th, 2026, withdrawal motion, Town opposition, Feodoroff affidavit, Winner affidavit with Select Board records, and first amended verified complaint. The filings do not name Bryan Mokrisky or place him in the July 7th meeting, Calter’s contacts with McNamara, the late-July investigation, the administrative-leave route, or the acting-chief appointment. Feodoroff describes the initiating complainant as a Stoughton police officer, and the Town describes that person as a subordinate police officer. The Town’s wellness-program FAQ describes Bryan Mokrisky’s current position as civilian and outside the police and fire departments. Unnamed employees remain in the pleadings, so the records do not establish that Bryan had no contact whatsoever. ↩︎
  20. Town of Stoughton, Select Board minutes, August 6th, 2024; Town of Stoughton Charter, Article 3 and Article 4; affidavit of Brian Winner with attached Certificate of Vote, filed July 30th, 2026. The minutes record Mokrisky’s praise for his son, his motion to establish the wellness-program donation account, and the Board’s five-to-zero approval. The Charter makes the five-member Select Board Stoughton’s highest executive and policy-making body, delegates administration to the Town Manager, and grants the Manager access to necessary Town records. The Charter does not grant the chair an independent all-record power. Winner’s certificate separately records the late-July matter-specific authority assigned to Mokrisky in McNamara’s investigation. ↩︎
  21. Office of the Comptroller of the Commonwealth, CTHRU Statewide Payroll dataset, 2015–2016 Bryan Mokrisky records; Massachusetts State Auditor, Overview of the Norfolk Sheriff’s Office; Norfolk District Attorney’s Office, “Massachusetts State Police Unit”; Norfolk County District Attorney and Norfolk Sheriff, December 2016 jail-smuggling release. The records identify Bryan Mokrisky as a Norfolk Sheriff’s Office corrections officer, place the correctional center in Dedham and the District Attorney’s State Police unit in Canton, and document two assigned detectives joining Sheriff’s Office personnel at the jail. The joint release does not name Bryan Mokrisky as a participant. ↩︎
  22. Stoughton Public Library, Stoughton High School yearbooks for 1998, 2002, 2007, 2008, and 2009; Patrick-Murray Administration, 80th Recruit Training Troop graduation roster, March 9th, 2012; Office of the Comptroller of the Commonwealth, CTHRU Statewide Payroll documentation, John Fanning query, and Yuriy Bukhenik query. The yearbooks identify Fanning as a 1998 graduate, Bukhenik as a 2002 graduate, Bryan Mokrisky as a student in 2007–2009, and Fanning as a 2008 golf coach. They do not place Bryan on Fanning’s team or document contact. Payroll places Fanning with the State Police in 2010, and the academy roster places Bukhenik’s State Police graduation more than five years before Bryan’s Stoughton Police swearing-in. No cited record places Bukhenik inside the Stoughton Police Department. ↩︎
  23. Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance, Stephen Mathew Cavey candidate-committee organization, filed February 10th, 2026; Steve Cavey for Rep, Facebook, June 18th, 2026; Town of Stoughton, July 28th meeting video and Select Board roster; Town of Stoughton Charter, Article 4, § C4-1. Cavey’s filing identifies the Sixth Norfolk District campaign, his post calls Calter “a mentor and a friend”, the meeting record shows Cavey alone failing to answer the roll call, and the Charter places the Town Manager under the Select Board’s policies and continuing authority. The records do not establish why Cavey missed the meeting or how either man acted in private. ↩︎
  24. Jeffrey Pickette, Patch, “Get to Know: Joe Mokrisky, Candidate for Stoughton Board of Selectmen”, April 6th, 2012; Boston Globe, “Stoughton voters opt for key changes on Board of Selectmen and School Committee”, April 12th, 2014; Patch, “Stoughton Voters Bring Mokrisky Back to Selectmen”; Town of Stoughton, 2025 Annual Town Report. The reviewed accounts place Mokrisky’s first Board victory in 1992, twelve reported years of prior service by 2012, a 2012 defeat, a fifth-term return in 2014, a 2017 decision not to run, a 2019 return, and a current term through April 2028. Patch says that it printed the 2012 candidate answers as received and unedited; those answers supply Mokrisky’s Town Manager quotations. ↩︎
  25. Massachusetts Legislature, Thomas Calter profile and Michael W. Morrissey profile; Town of Stoughton, July 28th meeting video; Jonathan Bowen, “Halter Thomas Calter”. The legislative profiles place Calter in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 2007 through 2018 and Morrissey in the Massachusetts Senate from 1993 through 2010. Their service overlapped in different chambers from 2007 through 2010. The meeting video preserves Bowen’s incorrect five-year House statement, while the prior article states the different-chamber 2007–2010 overlap. ↩︎

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