Russell, Jenna v. Executive Office of Public Safety and Security - Department of State Police (SPR 20150353)

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts William Francis Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth Public Records Division July 2, 2015 Shawn A. Williams Supervisor of& cords SPRlS/353 Mr. David Procopio Department of State Police Office of the Chief Legal Counsel 4 70 Worcester Road Framingham, Ma 01702 Dear Mr. Procopio: I have received the petition of Jenna Russell of the Boston Globe appealing the response of Department of State Police (Department) to her request for public records. G. L. c. 66 § 10(b); see also 950 C.M.R. 32.08(2). Specifically on March 15,2015, Ms. Russell requested a copy of a "list of homicides since January 1, 2010, with the victim name and location for each one." As of the date of this determination Ms. Russell has not received a satisfactory response from the Department regarding this request. "Under the Public Records Law and the Access Regulations (Regulations) all requests for public records must be met with a response within ten (1 0) days of the request. G. L. c. 66, § 10(b); 950 C.M.R. 32.05. The response may be an offer to provide records, a fee estimate for provision of the records, or a denial. As of the date she filed her petition it had been nearly 70 days and she had yet to receive a response from the Department. The ten-day provision is a maximum, rather than a minimum, time frame for complying with a public records request. Accordingly, the Department is hereby ordered, within ten (1 0) days of this order, to provide Ms. Russell with a response to her request for public records. If the Department maintains that portions of any responsive record are exempt from disclosure it must provide to Ms. Russell a written explanation, with specificity, how a particular exemption applies to each record. This administrative appeal is now closed. cc: Ms. Jenna Russell OneAshburton Place, Room 1719, Boston, Massachusetts 02108 · (617) 727-2832 ·Fax (617) 727-5914 www.sec.state.ma. us/ pre