Committee member alleges over-redacted minutes, secret redistricting meetings

What happened

School Committee member Collin Dias filed two Open Meeting Law complaints on November 25, 2025. One says minutes the committee voted to release from 11 meetings held between January 2025 and June 2025 came back over-redacted. The other says the district's Redistricting Working Group held unposted, secret meetings on eight dates from August through November 2025.

Why it matters to families

Open Meeting Law exists so families can see what their elected school board actually discussed and decided. A sitting member alleging the board hid working-group meetings and blacked out approved minutes is a direct claim that the public was kept in the dark, and the complaints were still listed for committee review five weeks later with no resolution recorded in the collected agendas.

The evidence

The December 8, 2025 and January 12, 2026 agendas both list, under Request for Executive Session, an Open Meeting Law complaint dated November 25, 2025 from Collin Dias alleging the released minutes from 11 named 2025 meetings were over-redacted, and a second complaint the same day alleging the Redistricting Working Group held unposted meetings on eight 2025 dates.

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