Holyoke

Lawsuit Alleges Discrimination Against Latino Families in Holyoke Public Schools

A lawsuit has been filed in federal court alleging human rights violations in Holyoke Public Schools. The suit alleges the district fails to provide parents who speak limited English adequate translation services, including for educational documents regarding the children in their families. “For at least two decades, HPS has routinely and repeatedly failed to translate important educational …


3 Holyoke Police Officers Accused in Lawsuit of Beating Boy, 12, Unconscious

In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Hampden Superior Court in Springfield, three Holyoke police officers were accused of beating a 12-year-old boy unconscious after responding to a shots-fired call in 2014. “Rather than searching and questioning the boy the officers assaulted him without cause, inflicting a concussion, deviated nasal septum, multiple abrasions and contusions to the scalp, …