Public records suit against Brookfield settled

BROOKFIELD

A Hubbard woman’s public-records lawsuit against Brookfield Township has been resolved with an out-of-court settlement.

Judge W. Wyatt McKay of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court dismissed the suit at the township’s cost on April 3. Kachaylo filed the complaint Aug. 26, 2010, after making numerous public-records requests with the township fiscal officer, Sylvia Addicott, and being told that some of the records had been erased as a result of a computer crash.

Some of the records Kachaylo sought were “daily logs” of the firefighters who worked for the township fire department between 1995 and ‘99.

Those documents were needed, Kachaylo said, to show the hours her husband, Brian Kachaylo, had worked as a firefighter/paramedic in order to show he had not been paid properly during that time.