Salem records over troubled cop to remain confidential, district attorney rules

A row of Salem Police Department vehicles parked at Salem City Hall pictured in the winter. (Caleb Wolf/Special to Salem Reporter)

For four months, a Salem Police Department officer was assigned to stay home with pay because his superiors weren’t sure he was fit for duty.

The public won’t learn what the city did from the time a supervisor took Seth Thayres’ badge to the day he was arrested in Portland on drug and theft…