{"id":20942,"date":"2017-09-26T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=20942"},"modified":"2017-09-25T08:46:32","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T12:46:32","slug":"integrity-commissioner-clears-thomson-after-complaint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/26\/integrity-commissioner-clears-thomson-after-complaint\/","title":{"rendered":"Integrity commissioner clears Thomson after complaint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/2017\/09\/22\/integrity-commissioner-clears-thomson-after-complaint\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An integrity commissioner has found no evidence that city Coun. Wayne Thomson shared confidential information from an in-camera meeting earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>In a report going before council Tuesday, Integrity Commissioner Brian Duxbury says a complaint submitted to the city clerk alleged Thomson disclosed information from the meeting to third parties \u201cwho were not entitled to such information,\u201d as evidenced by text messages.<\/p>\n<p>One of the messages, sent Jan. 25, stated: \u201cI was just talking to Wayne about another issue and he said in-camera was interesting and I will tell you\u2026(blacked out) is the cause of the rumors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following his investigation, which included interviews with Thomson and the unnamed person who sent the text, Duxbury concluded there was \u201cnothing unusual or suggestive of any improper disclosure\u201d in the communication, since Thomson was speaking with someone whose position requires interaction \u201con a regular basis.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: An integrity commissioner has found no evidence that city Coun. Wayne Thomson shared confidential information from an in-camera meeting earlier this year. In a report going before council Tuesday, Integrity Commissioner Brian Duxbury says a complaint submitted to the city clerk alleged Thomson disclosed information from the meeting to third&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[13104,1110,146,41,1139,13105,845],"class_list":["post-20942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-brian-duxbury","tag-city-council","tag-integrity-commissioner","tag-niagara-falls","tag-niagara-falls-review","tag-text-message","tag-wayne-thomson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20943,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20942\/revisions\/20943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}