Category: News
Announcements and updates
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$350 for Six Documents: East Bridgewater’s Second Fee Fight Is Not the Redaction Fight
Same district, same records officer, four months apart — and an entirely different dispute. A $350 estimate, a $75 hourly rate, a 30-day extension justified by a lawyer’s…
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2,243 Pages, 47 of Them Blacked Out: What the Supervisor of Records Decided About East Bridgewater
East Bridgewater produced thirteen PDFs and 2,243 pages of district email. A state supervisor accepted some of the redactions, refused to accept the rest, and closed the missing-record…
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North Attleborough Waived Its $100 Fee: A Settlement Records Project Update
The first district in the project to price a request and then voluntarily waive the bill in full — in the same week Westwood’s estimate fell back to…
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The Supervisor Rejected the Blanket Claim Twice: Middleborough’s Principal Search and the Records of Who Got Hired
One public request. Fifty-three pages produced, three categories denied outright. Two determinations holding that the district had not met its burden to redact — and a statute the…
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What It Cost to Look: Weston’s $5,416.67 Records Fee and the Fight to Inspect a Publicly Funded Role
Three months of work by a publicly funded DEI Coordinator. One records request. A bill for $5,416.67 that nobody has yet ruled lawful or unlawful — and a…
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From a Phishing Email to 118 Pages of Records: Reconstructing Worcester’s July 30 Cybersecurity Incident
A phishing message reached a Worcester family on the morning of July 30, 2026. The records request filed about it was then caught by Worcester’s own phishing filter.…
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Westfield Bills $200 and Holbrook Produces Four Agreements: A Settlement Records Project Update
Westfield priced the request at $200 and petitioned for thirty more days; Holbrook produced four agreements free. Two of Holbrook’s four are now withdrawn.
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Watertown Sends 59 Agreements, No Fee: A Settlement Records Project Update
The largest single production of the project — 59 final settlement agreements — arrived from Watertown on September 30, free and unpetitioned, while Somerset became the twelfth district…
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Somerset’s Fee-and-Time Petition Is Now SPR26/4099
Somerset’s records officer sent a fee estimate and the district’s own fee-and-time petition on September 30 — a $75-an-hour counsel rate, ten additional search hours on roughly a…
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Pembroke Produced, Quincy and Amherst Sent Fees: A Settlement Records Project Update
The project’s second full production of settlement records arrived free of charge — while Quincy answered the same request with a $450 fee, its own petition for thirty…