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AG’S OFFICE BLOCKS ACCOUNTS ON SOCIAL MEDIA, SHIELDS BAD ACTORS

Written by MAYA SHAFFER Posted February 26, 2020 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Now records we have received from Healey’s shed light on why her office may be avoiding the issue—her office is also guilty of the same kind of questionable social media management.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: #mapoli, AG, attorney general, Chick-fil-A, Chicopee, criminal justice, Critical MA, Facebook, FOIA, Healey, LGBTQ, Massachusetts, Police, public information, public records, Shoestring, social media, Twitter, western Mass

COP BLOCK: CHICOPEE POLICE CLAIM JOURNALISM IS AN ATTACK ON THEIR DEPARTMENT

Written by MAYA SHAFFER Posted January 15, 2020 Filed Under: FEATURES, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction

While there have indeed been formal requests made for public information and several articles written about CPD misconduct, it is news to us that we are on the “attack.”

Filed Under: FEATURES, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction Tagged With: Chick-fil-A, Chicopee, criminal justice, Critical MA, Facebook, FOIA, LGBTQ, Police, public information, public records, Shoestring, social media, western Mass

A CHICKEN FOR EVERY COP

Written by MAYA SHAFFER Posted November 4, 2019 Filed Under: FEATURES, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction

Chick-fil-A

The Western Mass police department that has hosted more than two-dozen events at Chick-fil-A

Filed Under: FEATURES, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction Tagged With: Chick-fil-A, Chicopee, criminal justice, Critical MA, Facebook, FOIA, LGBTQ, Police, public information, public records, Shoestring, social media, western Mass

THE FOILIES 2019: RECOGNIZING THE YEAR’S WORST IN GOVERNMENT TRANSPARENCY

Written by ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION Posted March 16, 2019 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction

“Like the time we knocked out two English papers, a science experiment, and built the White House out of sugar cubes,” Evan said. “It opened up our Sunday for filing Freedom of Information requests.”

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: EFF, Electronic Frontier Foundation, FOIA, government transparency, Kennedy assassination, MuckRock, public information, public records, Sunshine, Sunshine Week

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

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

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: 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: WHAT THE FOIA?!

Written by ANDREW QUEMERE AND MAYA SHAFFER Posted July 5, 2016 Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Who do you call when the cops rip you off?

Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Beacon Hill, Boston, BPD, Broken Records, CIA, Evan Anderson, FBI, FOIA, Lieutenant McCarthy, Maura Healey, MuckRock, public information, transparency, William Galvin

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