A reporter’s fight to learn more about harassment in a small town’s police department
THE UGLY TRUTH ABOUT PUBLIC RECORDS ACCESS UNDER NEW MASS LAW
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.
BROKEN RECORDS: KAFKACHUSETTS
Mass AG shows just how useless public info laws are, but change is possible
ON YOUR MARK, GET SET, GROW
Get those seeds in the ground right away, Mass
TALK TO THE HAND (BECAUSE BILL GALVIN AIN’T LISTENIN’)
Secretary holds sham hearing on records access
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 GALL OF GALVIN
Secretary of the Commonwealth shames independents (but should instead be ashamed of himself)
BROKEN RECORDS: WHAT THE FOIA?!
Who do you call when the cops rip you off?
MASS RECORDS LAW STILL BROKEN
Instead of improving enforcement, the Legislature decided to allow municipal agencies to grant themselves up to 25 business days to produce records
