Five years ago, I led a charge to obtain details of police misconduct from hundreds of police departments across New York, made legally public in the state in 2020. I knew that police could try to ...

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Massachusetts is the only state in the country in which the Legislature, governor’s office, and judiciary all claim to be exempt from the state’s public records law. That means documents that could ...

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The public records law is clear and unequivocal when it comes to the governor's office. Not only are the office's records public, but "it is essential to the maintenance of a democratic society that ...