Comment on Eliot’s town attorney requests confidentiality for elusive police report

ALFRED — In a court document filed Monday, the town of Eliot’s attorney asked a judge to keep the public from seeing a report, the existence of which is a matter of dispute. Eliot’s former deputy police chief testified in an earlier proceeding that he presented a report to Police Chief Theodor Short in 2009 with data showing that patrol officers lied about where they were during patrols, and said the chief failed to act on the information. Town Attorney Asha Echeverria doesn’t say whether an investigative report exists.