"Framingham police say employee fired over improper gun permits" by Kathleen Burge, Globe Staff | March 4, 2010
FRAMINGHAM - A Framingham police employee was fired last week after allegedly bending the rules for people seeking gun licenses - largely members of the armed services - by issuing licenses without authorization, upgrading licenses, and providing false addresses for applicants.
Police did not provide the former employee’s name, but Kelly McKinstry, a 24-year department employee, said in a brief interview yesterday that she had been fired but didn’t think she had done anything wrong. Police said they found 44 licenses the former employee had issued improperly, including three for machine guns. Police suspended the licenses and confiscated the guns of those people who wrongly received licenses.
Yeah, only the police can blow people away with impunity around here.
Framingham police said they, the Middlesex district attorney’s office, and the Navy are investigating whether criminal charges should be brought against the former employee or any of the applicants....
McKinstry, a civilian employee, was still listed on the Framingham Police Department online directory yesterday as an administrative assistant to the police prosecutor. The website lauds McKinstry’s “tireless efforts’’ in helping the police prosecutor do his job....
Nearly all of the licenses were issued to members of the armed services, though police did not say why they believed that was.
Connections with friends?
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"School department faces dozens of cuts
Superintendent Stephen Hiersche told the School Committee this week that trimming the school’s fiscal 2011 budget by about $5 million to reach $89.9 million could require the elimination of 54 positions. Hiersche said cuts would hit every part of the district: 17 jobs would come from the administration level, 10 from elementary schools, 11 from middle schools, and six from the high school. Cutting the budget to $85.6 million as recommended by the town’s chief financial officer could require eliminating another 60 jobs and doing away with the athletic department budget, according to Hiersche.
Oh, heavens no, not at the school.
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