Gloucester
- 01FY2026 counts 62,559.47 of receipts twice in cash on hand62,559.47
- 02DARE facility certified fully spent while 75% complete26,005.45
What the reports say,
and what the books show.
Gloucester has received $259,680.10 in opioid settlement funds. No ledger has been produced.
The money, four ways.
Four figures describe the same settlement money. Each one comes from a different document.
Certified against the books,
every report year.
Every year this jurisdiction has filed, and the year it has not. The match on each row is computed from the rows, not judged.
filed
- Programs listed
- none
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Received to date
- $65,831.48
filed
- Programs listed
- none
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Unspent on hand
- $155,134.25
- Received to date
- $155,137.45
filed
- Programs listed
- none
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Unspent on hand
- $197,023.59
- Received to date
- $197,023.59
filed
- Program name
- DARE Education and Training
- Recipient
- In house training facilities
- Recipient category
- First Responders, Law Enforcement, and Emergency Services
- Amount expended
- $26,005.45
- Unspent on hand
- $296,234.12
- Received to date
- $259,680.10
2 findings.
Every finding is verified to the documents in its own row. An inference is labelled as one.
Red with the marker: a certified figure the books contradict.
The FY2026 report certifies 62,559.47 received between 07/01/2025 and 06/30/2026, 93.84 of interest, 259,680.10 received since 2022 and 26,005.45 spent (page 1).
It certifies 0.00 encumbered and 296,234.12 of unspent and uncommitted funds on hand (page 2). The 259,680.10 already holds the year's receipts. It is the 65,831.48, 89,302.77, 41,884.49 and 62,559.47 certified received in FY2023 through FY2026 plus 101.89 of certified interest. The FY2023, FY2024 and FY2025 reports each certify 0.00 spent. On the City's own figures the most it could hold is 259,680.10 less 26,005.45, which is 233,674.65. The certified 296,234.12 equals 259,680.10 plus 62,559.47 less 26,005.45 to the cent. It counts the year's receipts twice and reports 36,554.02 more on hand than the City says it ever received. No ledger has been produced.
unspent-misstated · 4 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2026 report certifies one program, DARE Education and Training, with "In house training facilities" as the recipient.
It certifies 26,005.45 of funding, all 26,005.45 spent in the year, 0.00 encumbered and a one time disbursement (page 5). The same report says "The training facility is approximately 75% complete" (page 3) and also that "The training facilities are just finished" (page 6). It gives the funding date as 3/16/2026 and the launch date as 10/13/2025, five months before the program was funded, and reports 500 people served. It certifies the program as addressing persons involved in the criminal justice system and first responders (pages 4 and 6), while its target population is children through high school age (page 5). The report says the money bought equipment for the DARE program (page 6). No ledger, invoice or purchase order has been produced to show what the 26,005.45 paid for.
self-contradiction · 1 document · 10/03/2026The ledger, as printed.
The opioid account as printed from the jurisdiction's own accounting system. Classification follows the Exhibit E gates.
No ledger line is published for this jurisdiction yet.
Vendors, and what paid them before.
What fund carried each payee before the opioid account, and how large the opioid slice is against the whole relationship. Bars share one scale.
No payee is published for this jurisdiction yet.
All documents are public records produced by the jurisdiction. Titles are the documents' own.
No dated event is published for this jurisdiction yet.
No correction received from this jurisdiction. If a figure on this page is wrong, send the record that shows it. The response is published here word for word.
Correct the recordCan opioid settlement money be spent on police cars or license plate readers?
No. Exhibit E of the national settlement lists the approved uses: treatment, recovery, prevention, harm reduction and related supports. Vehicles and surveillance hardware are not among the uses it lists, and state law bars using the funds to replace money a town would otherwise have spent.The approved uses
What did Gloucester tell the State it spent the money on?
It certified 1 program to the Department of Human Services. Each program, its recipient and its amount are reproduced above, beside the payments in the account.See the reports
How was this grade computed?
By code, from a published rubric: reporting integrity 50 percent, spending conformity 40 percent, transparency 10 percent, with hard caps for a certified program that has no payee in the books, for an uncertified transfer out, and for a records refusal.The rubric
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Gloucester City told the State it holds 296,234.12 of unspent settlement money, 36,554.02 more than it says it ever received, and has produced no ledger to show what it spent.