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Bill Galvin

SUNSHINE WEEK SPECIAL: THE FOILIES 2017

Written by ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION Posted March 14, 2017 Filed Under: FEATURES, Media Farm, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction, Specials

Think of it as the Golden Raspberries but for government transparency, where the bad actors are actually going off script to deny the public the right to understand what business is being conducted on their behalf.

Filed Under: FEATURES, Media Farm, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction, Specials Tagged With: Bill Galvin, Donald Trump, EFF, Elster Solutions, Ericsson, Federal Bureau of Investigation, FOIAFriday, FOILIES, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), General Services Administration, Landis+Gyr, Massachusetts, Mike Pence, Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, New Orleans City Marshall, Portland Commissioner Amanda Fritz, Santa Maria Police Department, States of Texas and Arizona, Sunshine Week, transparency, U.S. Department of Justice

EXPECT DELAYS: IN MASS, WE NOW HAVE TO WAIT MONTHS FOR PUBLIC INFORMATION REQUESTS

Written by MAYA SHAFFER Posted March 6, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS

The fact is that the update makes it easy and legal for agencies to delay for months and leaves it entirely possible that any agency or municipality can lawfully delay providing records indefinitely.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: ACLU, Beacon Hill, Bill Galvin, Boston, Common Cause, Critical Mass, Massachusetts, Maura Healey, Maya Shaffer, public information, public records

BROKEN RECORDS: THE GALL OF GALVIN

Written by ANDREW QUEMERE Posted August 15, 2016 Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

Secretary of the Commonwealth shames independents (but should instead be ashamed of himself)

Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Bill Galvin, Bill Weld, Broken Records, Democrats, DNC, Green Party, Jill Stein, libertarians, Massachusetts, partisan, Secretary of the Commonwealth, third parties, William Galvin

STATE SECRETS: THERE AREN’T ANY PUBLIC RECORDS—ONLY RECORDS THE COMMONWEALTH HASN’T GOTTEN AROUND TO DECLARING EXEMPT YET

Written by MAYA SHAFFER Posted December 16, 2015 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm

All things considered, the supervisor of records needs to be removed regardless of whether the current push for an update to the public records law passes.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm Tagged With: bay state examiner, Bill Galvin, Broken Records, Dianne Kane-McGunigle, FOIA, Maya Shaffer, public records, QPD, Secretary of the Commonwealth, Shawn Williams, Supervisor of Records, William Galvin

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