By Sigmund D. Schutz Something needs to change when state employees in Maine conduct public business using instant messages that […]

By Shawn Musgrave On March 28, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority launched its extended late night service pilot program. For the

By Robert J. Ambrogi In June 2012, the police chief of the city of Waltham, Thomas LaCroix, was arrested on

By Sean F. Driscoll When the Cape Cod Times hears of police misconduct, reporters routinely ask for records of the

By Samantha Allen At about 5 p.m. on Aug. 29, 2012, a Westford police officer was racing to a domestic

By Pam Wilmot The MBTA Retirement Board recently voted to deny a request to turn over records relating to a

By Matthew Kauffman From the millions of tax dollars spent on Medicaid bills to the racial breakdown of public-school discipline

By Steven Brown Is a public record “public” if nobody can afford to see it? That’s not a philosophical question,

By Rosanna Cavanagh The New England First Amendment Coalition today sent a petition (.pdf) to the United States Justice Department