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Broken Records

BROKEN RECORDS: MONKEY WRENCHING

Written by ANDREW QUEMERE Posted June 27, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS

A rare win on the public records front in Mass

Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Beacon Hill, Broken Records, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Maura Healey, PETA, public information, public records, transparency

PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF PUBLIC INFORMATION

Written by ANDREW QUEMERE Posted January 22, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS

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

Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: ACLU, American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, andrew quemere, Beacon Hill, Broken Records, Charles River Laboratories, Commonwealth, exemption, Harvard Medical School, Laura Rotolo, Massachusetts, PETA, public information, public records, public safety exemption, SJC, Supreme Judicial Court

BROKEN RECORDS: HOW TO EXPOSE BAD GOVERNMENT IN 2017

Written by ANDREW QUEMERE Posted January 3, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

For the first time in decades, the Commonwealth has a new public records law. Here’s what you need to know…

Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: #mapoli, attorney general, Boston Globe, Broken Records, Charlie Baker, City of Boston, FOIA, Massachusetts, Maura Healey, public records, Shawn Williams, Sunshine

BROKEN RECORDS: KAFKACHUSETTS

Written by ANDREW QUEMERE Posted December 20, 2016 Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Uncategorized

Mass AG shows just how useless public info laws are, but change is possible

Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Uncategorized Tagged With: andrew quemere, attorney general, Beacon Hill, Boston Herald, Broken Records, FOIA, Massachusetts, Matt Stout, Maura Healey, MBTA, public information, State House, Sunshine, T, transparency, William Galvin

THREAT LEVEL: HYPOTHETICAL

Written by ANDREW QUEMERE Posted November 22, 2016 Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS

It was a standard public information request … until the state set up a maze to block one intrepid reporter’s access to records

Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: #mapoli, Beacon Hill, Broken Records, Burwell, Charlie Baker, Commonwealth, FOIA, governor, Haddadin, Hamel, Mackey, Massachusetts, MassIT, Metro West Daily News, MuckRock, public information, public records, Suffolk Superior Court, sunlight

BROKEN RECORDS: BEATING TRANSPARENCY

Written by ANDREW QUEMERE Posted October 4, 2016 Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS

The MBTA doesn’t want you to know how much it spends concealing evidence of police brutality

Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: AGO, Anthony Ferrier, Beacon Hill, Boston Herald, Broken Records, FOIA, Maura Healey, MBTA, Park Street Station, police brutality, records reform, Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin

BROKEN RECORDS: APPEALS NONSENSE

Written by ANDREW QUEMERE AND MAYA SHAFFER Posted September 20, 2016 Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Drafting these regulations was an opportunity to clarify vague and troubling language, but Galvin’s office has failed to address several issues left by state lawmakers.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Beacon Hill, Broken Records, Commonwealth, house, Mass Municipal Association, Massachusetts, MMA, public records, public records reform, Secretary of State, senate, William Galvin

BROKEN RECORDS: REFER MADNESS

Written by ANDREW QUEMERE AND MAYA SHAFFER Posted September 7, 2016 Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Top Dems make a show of pretending they might enforce the public records law

Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Beacon Hill, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Broken Records, Commonwealth, FOIA, freedom of information, Massachusetts, Maura Healey, public records, transparency, William Galvin

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

BROKEN RECORDS: CAPELESS, AND USELESS

Written by ANDREW QUEMERE AND MAYA SHAFFER Posted July 20, 2016 Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Enforcement of the Massachusetts records law will never happen under Galvin and Healey

Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: #mapoli, attorney general, Beacon Hill, Berkshires, Broken Records, Capeless, corruption, District Attorney, enforcement, Massachusetts politics, Maura Healey, Pittsfield, public records law, Secretary of State William Galvin, state politics

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