Updated: Town brass blast anonymous site targeting Delia Kaye
Readers contacted The Acton Bridge to report receiving unsolicited text messages promoting the site.
Town leaders are defending Natural Resources Director Delia Kaye after someone created an anonymous website alleging “lies and deception and much more.”
Multiple databases show the site was registered on March 5 through the firm called Domains by Proxy, which promises to protect creators’ identities.
The site critiques Kaye on issues related to dirt piles at the Acton rotary, Warner’s Pond dredging, and other topics.
Town Manager Kerry Lafleur said “the views reflected in that website are not representative” of the community.
She’s been in touch with Acton police and town counsel, she told the Select Board Monday night, and both are “working through this issue.”
Readers contacted The Acton Bridge to report receiving unsolicited text messages promoting the site, which was purportedly paid for by a group called “Acton for Transparency.”
The phone number from which the texts promoting the site originated delivered only busy signals when called and didn’t respond to Bridge messages.
The Bridge contacted multiple people who’ve publicly criticized Kaye. Those who responded said they were unaware of the site or didn’t know who launched it.
The website lambastes Kaye with a combination of legal language and mockery. Among speakers at Monday’s Select Board session, Natural Resources Commission member Jim Smith said the site has “many, many misstatements, falsehoods, and fabrications,” and his panel is “in full support” of Kaye.
Resident Jeff Collins read a letter he said was signed by 92 community members concerned about “bullying behavior” displayed by the website.
Pointing to earlier incidents targeting schools Superintendent Laurie Hunter, the letter writers called the site “the latest attack against a female leader in a town that prides itself on civil discourse and equality.”
Former Town Moderator Ned Perry said this isn’t “a simple matter” of First Amendment rights and urged officials to discuss ways to take the site down, identify its creators, and hold them responsible “for their slanderous actions.”
‘Menacing behavior’
Officials are focused on supporting town employees, Lafleur said in a written statement to The Bridge, and “personal attacks will not deter staff from carrying out their responsibilities on behalf of the community.”
Kaye declined to answer questions when reached by email.
Select Board member and NRC liaison Paul Boehm told The Bridge that he’s “appalled” by material on the site that he said was “clearly designed to intimidate and damage [Kaye’s] reputation.”
Such “menacing behavior by anonymous cowards is over the line,” he said. He called Kaye, who has held her job since 2006, a “highly respected public servant.”
At the outset of Monday’s meeting, Select Board Chair Mark Howell said “anonymous comments and allegations directed at officials are not helpful and should be considered with skepticism.”
Lafleur said town counsel was doing additional work “in terms of the bounds and the limitations of free speech.”
“I think everybody wishes more could happen, and that it could happen faster,” she said, “but we are working on this, and we are spending considerable time to see what we can do to address this.”
— Celeste Katz Marston contributed reporting.
Tuesday, April 7, 2026: This story has been updated.
