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Dig Bos

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Maya Shaffer

DIG WINS NATIONAL AWARDS FOR POLITICAL COLUMN AND FIRST AMENDMENT JOURNALISM

Written by DIG STAFF Posted July 26, 2019 Filed Under: Media Farm, NEWS+OPINIONS, Update

As shameless as it sometimes feels to celebrate awards, it’s also true that journalists are underpaid, underappreciated, and in some cases even relentlessly harassed because of their work.

Filed Under: Media Farm, NEWS+OPINIONS, Update Tagged With: #mapoli, AAN, AAN Awards, Alternative Media, BINJ, Jason Pramas, Maya Shaffer, public records

OUR YEAR IN NEWS + FEATURES: FROM HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS, TO THE POLICE STATE, TO TRANSPORTATION

Written by DIG STAFF Posted December 26, 2017 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction

As we strive to communicate every time our keyboards get clicking, the stories we bring you in DigBoston is either news you aren’t getting elsewhere, or the people’s version of the capitalist rubbish found in mainstream media. And man oh man, we unearthed a lot of those critical hidden nuggets in the past 12 months.

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction Tagged With: 2017, BINJ, Boston, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Britni de la Cretaz, Carolyn Bick, Daniel DeFraia, Derek Kouyoumjian, DigBoston, Eoin Higgins, intersectional politics, Jonathan Riley, Joshua Eaton, Journalism, Kori Feener, Kylie Obermeier, Laura Kiesel, Maya Shaffer, Sarah Betancourt, Seth Kershner

THE UGLY TRUTH ABOUT PUBLIC RECORDS ACCESS UNDER NEW MASS LAW

Written by MAYA SHAFFER Posted November 29, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Critical Mass, NEWS+OPINIONS

I’ve recently run into back-to-back critical failures that threaten the ability of requesters, be they media or private citizens, to even obtain records at all, let alone obtain them in a timely manner.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Critical Mass, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Beacon Hill, Department of Correction, FOIA, Mass DOC, Massachusetts, Maura Healey, Maya Shaffer, Police, public records access, public records law, Shirley, State House, transgender inmates, William Galvin

OPERATION INTIMIDATION IN THE MERRIMACK VALLEY

Written by MAYA SHAFFER Posted November 16, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Critical Mass, NEWS+OPINIONS

A noise complaint in Haverhill might lead to an armored truck on your doorstep

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Critical Mass, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: #mapoli, Critical Mass, Haverhill, Maya Shaffer, militarization, militarized police, MRAP, NECN, Police, SWAT

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

GENDER CONFINEMENT: MASS DOC CONTENDS IT CAN DISCRIMINATE AGAINST TRANSGENDER INMATES

Written by MAYA SHAFFER Posted October 13, 2016 Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Why does the DOC believe it is allowed to house transgender people in the wrong gender facility?

Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Charlie Baker, Commonwealth, Department of Correction, doc, Mass General Law, Massachusetts, Maya Shaffer, prison rights, transgender, transgender discrimination, transgender rights

QUINCY LIES: MUNICIPAL OFFICIALS GARISHLY FLOUT MASS PUBLIC RECORDS LAW

Written by ANDREW QUEMERE AND MAYA SHAFFER Posted March 1, 2016 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

They repeated these falsehoods to Kane-McGunigle, us, the Boston Globe, and to Galvin’s office.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: andrew quemere, Broken Records, FOIA, Massachusetts, Maya Shaffer, public information, public records, Quincy, William Galvin

FOIA-BLES: CRITICAL MASS RECORDS REFORM BILL TAKES TWO STEPS FORWARD AND ONE STEP BACK

Written by ANDREW QUEMERE AND MAYA SHAFFER Posted February 1, 2016 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

If the best parts of the Senate bill survive and the worst provisions in the House bill are scrapped, then the Massachusetts public records law might become a little bit less broken.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: andrew quemere, bay state examiner, bill, BINJ, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Broken Records, FOIA, House Senate, lawmakers, legislature, Massachusetts, Maya Shaffer, public records, Sunshine, transparency

THE SECRETARY OF SECRECY: A NEW COLUMN ABOUT PUBLIC RECORDS REFORM IN MASS, AND JUST IN TIME

Written by ANDREW QUEMERE AND MAYA SHAFFER Posted January 18, 2016 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction

There are a few possible solutions. One would be giving Galvin’s office more power to enforce the law. Another would be to streamline the process by eliminating Galvin’s role entirely and having the AG’s office handle the process from start to finish.

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction Tagged With: #mapoli, andrew quemere, attorney general, bay state examiner, Boston Globe, Broken Records, FOIA, Martha Coakley, Massachusetts, Maura Healey, Maya Shaffer, public information, public records, Secretary of Commonwealth, Secretary of State, Todd Wallack, 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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