Massachusetts Open Records


  1. Massachusetts Open Records
    1. Massachusetts laws and court cases
    2. Letter Generator
    3. Exemptions
    4. Contacts (where to send your request)
    5. State Salary Database
    6. Blogs, websites and resources that use open records
    7. Press
      1. 2008
      2. 2007


Massachusetts laws and court cases

State Statute
Open Government Guide to Massachusett's open records legislation by The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press

Letter Generator

Generate an open records request that conforms to Massachusetts requirements

Exemptions

Document types exempted from public access.

Contacts (where to send your request)

Follow this link to create a filterable list of Massachusetts School Addresses
Follow this link for the The Boston Globe's handy guide to public records.
Boston City Clerks

State Salary Database

The Boston Herald has this list of state payroll through April of 2007: Massachusetts 2007 State Employee Payroll

To see what other states have salary databases, click here.

Blogs, websites and resources that use open records

(add yours!)
Citizens for Open Government
Sunshine Boston


Press

2008

July 22, 2008: Mayor seeks records on firefighters' physicians
July 20, 2008: Police public files costly
July 17, 2008: Public has right to know who Brockton employees are calling
June 27, 2008: Court blasts City Council secrecy
May 23, 2008: CORI reform unlikely
April 8, 2008: Hopkinton officials to attend public records training
April 7, 2008: School Chief Spies on Committee E-mail
March 25, 2008: On public records test, Newton comes up short
March 19, 2008: Brookline passes public records test, but response reveals bookkeeping lapse
March 19, 2008: Public records allow scrutiny
March 13, 2008: Daily News to appeal $2,000 charge for Troiano's e-mail
March 3, 2008: Records say state workers wasted time surfing Web
February 27, 2008: Make public information public
February 27, 2008: Peabody schools’ emails will now be publicly archived
February 19, 2008: State orders data released financial info on former officer
January 20, 2008: School case raises flag on e-mail
January 16, 2008: Newburyport undermining citizens' right to know
January 16, 2008: SMOC demands public records
January 15, 2008: Don't hide criminal records from public view
January 15, 2008: City denies News' request for documents on sergeant suspension
January 13, 2008: Crash
January 11, 2008: If It Walks Like a Cop…

2007

December 29, 2007: Public listings could go private
December 18, 2007: State blasts town over records
December 13, 2007: Records detail Lamberis charges
December 8, 2007: SMOC suit becomes a battle over documents
November 2, 2007: YOUR VIEW: Public records reveal truth of Dartmouth contracts
October 26, 2007: Policing public access (Opinion column)
October 19, 2007: Seekonk building records promised but elusive
October 19, 2007: New Bedford police must release cell phone records
September 15, 2007: Newspaper files appeal for police cell phone bills
August 16, 2007: Some say Town Meeting e-mails should be open to public
July 20, 2007: Attorney-client documents exempt from public records law
July 20, 2007: Holliston official might refuse state's e-mail order
July 17, 2007: Missing documents spur debate on public records
July 6, 2007: Lawmakers Revive Battle Over Police Records


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    don warner saklad:         I have received your petition appealing the fee estimate provided by the City of Cambridge Public Library (City) to your March 4, 2008 public records request. See GL c55 s10(b) (2006 ed.) (Supervisor of Public Records has authority to resolve public records appeals); see also 950 CMR 32.08(2) (appeal process). http://www.sec.state.ma.us/pre/prepdf/pubreclaw.pdf Specifically, you requested a copy of the internal phone list located in the City's Library.         By email dated April 4, 2008, Attorney Nancy E. Glowa, Deputy City Solicitor, provided you with a written estimate of $24.63 for the cost of providing you with the responsive records. See GL c66 s10(a) (2006 ed.) (any person having custody of public records shall furnish a copy thereof upon payment of a reasonable fee); see also, 950 CMR 32.06(2) (custodian shall provide written, good faith estimate where it expects costs to comply will exceed ten dollars ($10.00)). However you requested that this Office review the reasonableness of the estimate. more at http://lists.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind0807c&L=recmgmt-l http://listserv.syr.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A1=ind0807&L=foi-l http://lists.ala.org/sympa/arc/ifforum http://groups.google.com/group/soc.libraries.talk/ http://www.lita.org/ala/oif/iftoolkits/ifmanual/intellectual.cfm
    don warner saklad:http://lists.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind0807c&L=recmgmt-l http://listserv.syr.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A1=ind0807&L=foi-l http://lists.ala.org/sympa/arc/ifforum http://groups.google.com/group/soc.libraries.talk/ http://www.lita.org/ala/oif/iftoolkits/ifmanual/intellectual.cfm I have received your petition appealing the fee estimate provided by the City of Cambridge Public Library (City) to your March 4, 2008 public records request. See GL c55 s10(b) (2006 ed.) (Supervisor of Public Records has authority to resolve public records appeals); see also 950 CMR 32.08(2) (appeal process). http://www.sec.state.ma.us/pre/prepdf/pubreclaw.pdf Specifically, you requested a copy of the internal phone list located in the City's Library. By email dated April 4, 2008, Attorney Nancy E. Glowa, Deputy City Solicitor, provided you with a written estimate of $24.63 for the cost of providing you with the responsive records. See GL c66 s10(a) (2006 ed.) (any person having custody of public records shall furnish a copy thereof upon payment of a reasonable fee); see also, 950 CMR 32.06(2) (custodian shall provide written, good faith estimate where it expects costs to comply will exceed ten dollars ($10.00)). However you requested that this Office review the reasonableness of the estimate.
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