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| Ottoson e-mails requested last July released to media |
 More than 150 pages of e-mails between a former Ottoson teacher and principal have been released to Your Arlington after a judge ruled they were public information. The e-mails reflect a virtual relationship that grew from joking familiarity in the fall of 2005 toward a more personal association in the spring of 2007.
The copies of e-mails involving former technology education teacher Chuck Coughlin and former Principal Stavroula Bouris were mailed March 26 in response to public records requests made by five media outlets last July. Last Dec. 11 the judge ruled the e-mails were public information, but a motion by the defense counsel led to the delay of their release. A lawsuit brought last August effectively ended in January after Coughlin and Bouris declined to appeal a judge’s ruling making public the disputed e-mails in the case.Many of the emails, which cover the period from October 2005 until mid-June 2007, mix ordinary, day-to-day concerns with personal comments. The majority of such comments were written by Coughlin, whose remarks are often jocular and sarcastic. In none of the e-mails provided does Bouris tell Coughlin to stop writing her in a personal way.The new e-mails consist chiefly of mundane school matters but make clear a longstanding connection between the two. Coughlin and Bouris lost their jobs after an investigation last summer alleged the forgery of e-mails and an inappropriate relationship conducted on the schools’ e-mail system. The matter is in arbitration. Four other media outlets, including The Boston Globe and Arlington Advocate made public-records requests for the documents last July. |
| Last Updated ( Tuesday, 02 June 2009 12:01 ) |
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