Category: News
Announcements and updates
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The Weston Reconsideration: SPR26/3432, a $5,416.67 Fee Estimate, and the Friedman Decision
A reconsideration request now before the Supervisor of Records asks whether a determination that leaned on a request’s breadth can stand after the Appeals Court held that breadth…
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Two Districts, One Petition: East Bridgewater and Natick Ask for 30 More Days in the Same Words
Two fee-and-time petitions reached the Supervisor of Public Records on the same day from two different districts — with the same typo, the same wrong record type, the…
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Westwood Quoted Itself $25 an Hour, Then Billed $40
Westwood’s own September 23 acknowledgment capped the rate at $25 for the student settlement agreements it had not yet searched. Six days later its fee notice billed 13…
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Weymouth’s $350 Portal Fee Is Now an Appeal
About 30 student settlement agreements “may be responsive” at Weymouth while the search is still going, and a $350 advance is demanded through the town’s portal — the…
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Natick’s $275 Fee and 30-Day Extension Are Now Under Appeal
About 300 pages, two hours of search, three hours of attorney review at $75 an hour — and a petition for thirty extra business days. The appeal and…
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East Bridgewater’s $350 Fee and 30-Day Extension Are Now Under Appeal
East Bridgewater priced about six responsive student settlement agreements at $350 across two rates, and petitioned the Supervisor of Records for thirty extra business days. The fee and…
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Dracut’s $2,950 Estimate Is Now an Appeal
The largest fee on the board — 120 hours for 45 agreements the district had already found — was appealed the same day it arrived, and the Supervisor…
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Amesbury’s $750 Estimate Is Now an Appeal
Amesbury billed thirty hours at $25 an hour to produce student settlement agreements, objected to the scope, and was appealed to the Supervisor of Public Records the same…
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Berlin-Boylston Priced the Request at $75, Then Refused to Waive It
Berlin-Boylston’s three itemized hours at $25 for the student settlement agreements it had not yet searched — the project’s cheapest and first fee estimate — came with a…
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Pentucket Itemizes a $150 Estimate, Down to the Half-Hour
Pentucket’s two hours to search and four to review, all at the statutory $25 rate for the same student settlement agreements — the project’s third fee estimate, and…