Tag: Transparency
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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 Two of Holbrook’s four are now withdrawn.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…
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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…