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Worcester’s Wasteful, Never-Ending War on Police Transparency

Written by ANDREW QUEMERE Posted July 21, 2022 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Inside the long-running lawsuit over police misconduct records that continues to cost taxpayers

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: feature, features, FOIA, news, public records, Worcester

Records Crisis Deepens In Mass Following Devastating State Ruling

Written by MAYA SHAFFER Posted May 2, 2022 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

The case pertains to an investigation into the use of rodenticides by government agencies

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Beacon Hill, features, FOIA, news, news to us, public records

A WIN FOR TRANSPARENCY AND POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY IN MASS

Written by ANDREW QUEMERE Posted February 8, 2022 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

“We don’t go into things looking to file lawsuits, but when we feel like people have not followed the law, we challenge them.”

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: FOIA, Massachusetts, Police, public records, Worcester

THANKS TO SECRETARY GALVIN, COMMONWEALTH CONTINUES DRIFT AWAY FROM TRANSPARENCY

Written by MAYA SHAFFER Posted December 9, 2021 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

This is what happens when you try asking the second largest city in Mass and state officials to adhere to basic public records laws

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Massachusetts, news, news to us, public records, transparency, Worcester

BIG NEWS: SJC RULES MASS AGENCIES CAN’T WITHHOLD FEDERAL RECORDS

Written by ANDREW QUEMERE Posted January 6, 2021 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

“If Massachusetts agencies could skirt the public records law by characterizing the receipt of documents as a loan, that would have been [an] invitation to a substantial amount of mischief.”

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: news, news to us, Police, public records

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

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

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

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