“There’s no such thing as privacy on social media, even on a private page.”
In the pictures posted in 2018 on Facebook, Maxx Training Center advertised their newest fitness class, “Tango Charlie Bravo,” phonetic alphabet for “Tactical Combat Bootcamp,” taught by their newest employee, “Officer Kim.” But this was no ordinary advertisement, as Kimberlyn Lydon, the employee in question, was also a police officer with the town of Stoughton.
The conflation of the two jobs in such a public manner was seen as a “potential ethics violation” by Town Manager Marc Tisdelle, prompting him to fire the five-year employee without opportunity for remediation. After multiple attempts to reach them, Lydon and Tisdelle declined to comment on the matter.
Now Lydon is suing the Stoughton Police Department and the town of Stoughton for damages on six counts, two of them involving wrongful termination in an ongoing demand filed in Norfolk County Superior Court on Oct. 13. Deputy Chief Brian Holmes of the Stoughton Police Department referred to their lawyer, Thomas Donohue, for comment. Reached by phone at his office, Donohue declined to comment on the department’s behalf.
“Being a police officer is public knowledge,” Lydon, 31, of Canton, wrote in defense of herself as part of the statement filed in Norfolk County Superior Court. “What the training center posted was acceptable. And if it wasn’t [I] did not have control over it.”
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