BROCKTON, MASS. (WHDH) - Christopher Correia has worked for 22 years as the Brockton Public Schools’ assistant financial officer. As word got out that the district overspent its 2023 budget by $14 million, though, Correia was put on paid leave.
Now, attorney Timothy Burke has said he plans to file a whistleblower lawsuit against the city of Brockton and its school committee on Correia’s behalf, claiming Correia sounded alarms about the district’s overspending for months.
“He’s been cast in the light that, somehow, he didn’t do his job when it’s just the exact opposite,” Burke said. “The only one doing their job and who the public should be commending is Chris Correia.”
Burke recently provided nearly 20 of Correia’s emails dating back as far as July of 2022 about issues with the public school budget.
One email on July 21, 2022 explains in part, “We cannot continue to enter into contracts that we haven’t accounted for in the current budget.”
“If we don’t get a handle on this transportation budget and address the management issues in that department, we are headed for a very serious budget shortfall for Fiscal Year 2023,” Correia warns in one other email on Oct. 29, 2022.
In an email dated March 28, Correia offered a suggestion.
“We continue to receive police detail invoices for traffic duty,” he said. “I recommend that we terminate these details…the budget cannot support these additional expenditures.”
On July 27, 2023, Correia raised a red flag, saying “We cannot afford to...
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