It was a standard public information request … until the state set up a maze to block one intrepid reporter’s access to records
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THE HIGH ROAD REVISITED: WHAT A LONG, STRANGE WAR IT’S BEEN ON LEGALIZATION IN MASS
From ballot questions to elections and over bureaucratic hurdles, we’ve trudged through many muddy trenches toward the endless fields of grass ahead.
GENDER CONFINEMENT: MASS DOC CONTENDS IT CAN DISCRIMINATE AGAINST TRANSGENDER INMATES
Why does the DOC believe it is allowed to house transgender people in the wrong gender facility?
GUEST EDITORIAL: WHEN PENALTIES REPLACE PRIVACY
Even though it has been 18 years since digital tolling debuted on the Pike, there is still not even a data retention policy.
BROKEN RECORDS: APPEALS NONSENSE
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.
BROKEN RECORDS: REFER MADNESS
Top Dems make a show of pretending they might enforce the public records law
BROKEN RECORDS: THE SECRETARY OF SECRECY, PART III
Testimony from state’s agency that oversees the public records law shows how little they care about the public’s access to records
AUSTERITY BUDGET: PART 2
The lowlights of the Mass House Ways and Means Committee FY 2017 state budget proposal
LICENSE AND REGISTRATION PLEASE: ON POLICE CERTIFICATION
Everyone from architects to barbers needs to be licensed in Mass—should police have the same standard?
HIGHWAY ROBBERY: AN ATTORNEY GIVES US ANOTHER REASON TO AVOID DRIVING IN MASS ALTOGETHER
You could be walking around with a life worth only four grand and not even know it.