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A proposed tweak to the regulations governing access to public records in Massachusetts could mean more fees for journalists and others who regularly request government records
“If Massachusetts agencies could skirt the public records law by characterizing the receipt of documents as a loan, that would have been [an] invitation to a substantial amount of mischief.”
"Now more than ever, family members and the wider community must have access to all public records when officers are investigated for misconduct—especially when they are cleared of wrongdoing.”
A rare win on the public records front in Mass
Why won’t the Worcester DA release a 66-year-old murder file?
Prosecutors are dismissing nearly 24,000 tainted drug convictions, but do their actions go far enough?
How Mass politicians say ‘local control’ when they mean ‘prohibition’
The animal rights group PETA is set to argue an important case that will determine the limits of the so-called public safety exemption to the public records law
For the first time in decades, the Commonwealth has a new public records law. Here’s what you need to know…
Mass AG shows just how useless public info laws are, but change is possible
