Our reporting on the ongoing transparency disaster in Massachusetts from last year won one of this year’s Foilies, an award given be the EFF for outstandingly poor transparency.
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Our reporting on the ongoing transparency disaster in Massachusetts from last year won one of this year’s Foilies, an award given be the EFF for outstandingly poor transparency.
Why bother follow the law when you’re a police department? Cambridge Police Department doesn’t have a Records Access Officer despite being required by law to have one.
After some discussion with Crit.news the DA’s office has agreed to fix their website to bring it into compliance with the records law
A year and a half later it turns out the premise of my award winner piece was proven correct… the Boston police were quietly assisting ICE in the shadows made by our state’s terrible public records law
Michael Wilk, the Chicopee Police Department’s Public Information Officer who runs the department’s social media accounts, has been destroying public records. I have referred this apparent crime to the Secretary Galvin’s Office.
Due to the ongoing public records access crisis in Massachusetts it has become functionally impossible for CriticalMA to provide the type of public records based coverage we used to. Since requests can easily take a year or more to resolve, and can end unresolved when the state simply fails to enforce the law, it’s impossible to predict if or when publishing a final product will be possible on any given story.
