Brockport village officials
continue seeking DeToy’s removal

Brockport’s Mayor Josephine Matela said village officials have instructed employees to cooperate with the attorney John Parrinello, who was hired to investigate the removal of Trustee Peter DeToy from office.

"We received a communication from an attorney that Mr. DeToy has retained," Matela said. "From what we can garner from the letter, the attorney is strongly objecting to DeToy’s censure."

In order to provide the village with an unbiased opinion, Matela said, they have retained Parrinello, from Rochester, to conduct an investigation into comments allegedly made by DeToy to police dispatchers on October 31 and December 5.

"We retained an outside attorney because we don’t want the appearance of impropriety," she said.

The village began seeking DeToy’s removal from office when he failed to tender his resignation on January 7 as the board had requested. The board requested his resignation because of allegedly threatening phone calls made to public safety dispatcher Dave Smith about members of the police department. The phone conversations allegedly stemmed from an incident in which Smith asked DeToy about his son, Michael DeToy, a police officer in the department. Officer DeToy was on sick leave at the time of the incident.

"We have every confidence that what we are doing is the right thing for the village," Matela said.