Tag: Transparency
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Three Districts, One Ruling: The Supervisor Caps Attorney Review Fees at $75 an Hour
East Bridgewater, Natick and Quincy each asked the Supervisor of Records for 30 extra business days and an hourly rate three times the statutory cap. Within 24 hours…
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Four Districts, One Day, Four Different Answers: What They Sent, What They Charged, and What We Refused to Publish
On Oct. 6, 2026, four Massachusetts districts answered our identical settlement-records requests on the same day. Two produced records and charged nothing. One produced records and charged for…
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Watertown Sent 59 Settlement Agreements, No Fee: What the Records Show
Watertown sent 59 numbered settlement agreements and no invoice. 33 of the 58 we published are now withdrawn, and the reason is our review, not the district’s.
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$27,550 for 18,900 Pages: Bridgewater-Raynham’s Estimate Is the Largest in the Settlement Records Project
Three districts billed for the same request in the same week, at the same $75 an hour. One district answered the same request with records, and no bill…
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Pages 73 Through 119: East Bridgewater’s 47-Page Blackout and the Record It Says It Does Not Have
Two hundred and forty-seven pages of email came back. Forty-seven of them came back black. A 31-page School Committee letter the District itself identified, acknowledged in writing, and…
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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…