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The section entitled “potential ethics violation and divorce filing” contains a number of false assertions and contains references to an impounded case file. I suggest changes as follows:
On December 6, 2024, The Boston Globe reported that Roy had been engaged in a relationship with lobbyist Jennifer Crawford, a lobbyist whose firm handles energy legislation.[3] Roy disclosed the relationship in letter to the State House clerk on July 10, 2023.[3] Roy's relationship with Crawford did not violate any laws and the Massachusetts State Ethics Commission confirmed that no ethics violation occurred either in a letter dated August 25, 2023. Speakthetruth2025 (talk) 16:48, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Whether or not information is impounded is of no consequence to Wikipedia. Unless ordered by a court, Wikipedia will not remove information because a court decides to impound or seal documents. What we do care about is whether information is sourced to reliable, secondary sources. The information you have removed is sourced to the Boston Globe, a reputable and reliable source. I am sensitive to the reality that this is a biography of a living person. However, bad things happen to good people all the time, and the choices a person in public office make can not be erased from history in this digital age once it is in the public eye. Wikipedia does not revise history. We write about it. Nevertheless, given that there is a single source and single author of this information, it bears scrutiny. I did a fairly deep search trying to find other news outlets reporting on this incident. While such mentions exist, they all depend upon the Boston Globe articles. Again, those articles are all written by a single person. I am therefore removing the section entirely, per WP:PUBLICFIGURE pending further production of reliable, secondary sources. --Hammersoft (talk) 14:25, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
