On December 4th, 2023, I wrote to Concord Police seeking records on Concord Police Detective Julie Curtin. I sent a similar letter to Steven Endres, Esq., at the Merrimack County Attorney’s Office, seeking records of communications between the County Attorney’s Office (Catherine Ruffle), Concord PD Detective Julie Curtin, and Concord City Councilor Amanda Grady Sexton.
On December 6th, 2023, Steven Endres informed me that the County Attorney’s Office has no records.
On December 7th, 2023, Concord Police Chief Bradley Osgood told me he would look and that it could take up to 90 days.
No records are forthcoming. I’m told there are none.
THREE YEARS LATER:
In April 2026, Concord City Solicitor John Conforti informs me that the “internal affairs” policies for allowing public access to records changed on…December 6th, 2023. In other words, on the same day that Steven Endres wrote to me and the day before Concord Police Chief Bradley Osgood wrote to me to say he needed 90 days.
I asked the City Solicitor to provide any documentation of meetings, votes, or communications regarding the decision to change the policy on December 6th, 2023. I haven’t received any. Should I assume there are none? I believe so.
A couple of months ago, I decided to go to Police Standards and Training and ask them for “Form B” records on Concord PD Julie Curtin. These are records that need to be filed within 15 days of a status or position change for police officers with Police Standards and Training. Lo and behold, they have records. They forwarded to me a Form B from Concord PD in December 2014 for a “promotion” of Julie Curtin to “Sargent” AND a Form B from May 19, 2015 for a “demotion” from “Acting” (handwritten) “Sargent.” They also forwarded me a Form B from January 2020 for Julie Curtin’s “retirement” from Concord PD on July 9th, 2019. The form was signed more than 6 months after the status change – well outside the 15-day limit printed in red on the form. Julie Curtin was then hired by the AG’s office almost the next day, having passed the background check.
So I asked the Concord City Solicitor about the “demotion”. He said that HR didn’t consider it a disciplinary action. But look up what the “demotion” reasons are for police officers, and they are usually (not always) for disciplinary actions – a way to avoid due process and an interview for misconduct.
The City Solicitor confirmed to me that the Concord Police Department had no protocols for police misconduct before 2021. So why is AG Peter Heed’s 2004 memo regarding the necessity for all Police Agencies to have Laurie protocols lurking in the Concord Police files in 2026? What is the point?
Merrimack County Attorney’s HR office provided me with a form which stated that former Merrimack County Assistant Attorney, Catherine Ruffle, had been “terminated” in November 2017. This contradicted the HR department’s email about it, in which they said she’d “resigned.”
I was informed that the “terminated” box was filled in because she took a job as Clerk for Cheshire County and never came back. There are several options on the form that can be filled in for departure, which include “other” and “transfer.”
Dianne Martin (at the center of the Supreme Court scandal with Gordon MacDonald) was also “terminated.” She was rehired in another position. The point was made in the Martin case that a transfer would be more normal rather than a termination and then a rehire with a new salary.
Suzanne Gelinas, the HR employee who blew the whistle on the Dianne Martin matter to Todd Bookman at NHPR, was also “terminated.” Dianne Martin and Suzanne Gelinas’ terminations were apparently unwilling. But Merrimack County Attorney’s Office assures me that Catherine Ruffle’s termination was simply because she got a new position in another county.
Although Catherine Ruffle was listed for a while as Clerk for Cheshire County, she was also listed as Clerk for Merrimack County as late as 2023. She quietly left and was replaced in 2024, not long after Merrimack County Attorney’s office and the AG’s office brushed off inquiries about her allowing tampered state witnesses to testify in State v. Owen Labrie.
The witness tampering came to light in a January 2023 letter from the State Witness, Chessy Prout, to the US Senate Judiciary Committee. The letter named Catherine Ruffle. The candidate for the First Circuit who was being interviewed for the position was the person accused of tampering with the State witnesses: former AG Michael Delaney, Esq. In a questionnaire the judiciary sent to him, he denied the tampering. Another public record. Nevertheless, he withdrew from consideration for the position, and the NH Bar, ADO, AG’s office, and Merrimack County Attorney’s office just buried it all under the rug.
Michael Delaney was the attorney for Judge Julie Introcaso, who pled guilty to two felonies, which included “whitewashing” official judicial records.
The JCC has determined that the Supreme Court’s statement on Dianne Martin (crafted with the help of the counsel to the Senate: Richard Lehmann Esq) is dishonest.
Robert Mittelholzer of the JCC once told me that the location listed on a transcript of an interview with Judge King was not where the interview actually took place.
Is there any public record from the Police Departments, County Attorneys’ offices, AG’s office, or Judiciary we could actually trust?
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