John C. Manoog III, Esq. v. Sandwich, Town of - Police Department (SPR 20160881)

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts William Francis Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth Public Records Division Shawn A. Williams Supervisor ofR ecords October 20, 2016 SPR16/881 John C. Manoog, III, Esq. The Law Offices of John C. Manoog, III 450 South Street Hyannis, MA 02601 Dear Attorney Manoo g: I have received your petition appealing the response of the Town of Sandwich-Police Department (Department) to your public records request. G. L. c. 66 § 1O (b ); see also 950 C.M.R. 32.08(2). The requirements for an appeal are as follows: Such appeal shall be in writing, and shall include a copy of the letter by which the request was made and a copy of the response from the records custodian. The supervisor shall accept an appeal only from a person who has made his or her request in writing. An oral request, while valid as a public records request pursuant to 950 CMR 32.05 (3), may not be the basis of an appeal under 950 CMR 32.08(2). Given that neither a copy of your request letter nor a copy of the letter you received from the Department was provided to this office with your October 13 petition, this office is unable to assist you in this appeal at this time. Please feel free to re-submit your appeal when you have retrieved copies of all the required documents. Accordingly, this appeal file is closed. cc: Michael Nurse One Ashburton Place, Room 1719, Boston, Massachusetts 02108 • (617) 727-2832• Fax: (617) 727-5914 sec.state.ma.us/pre • pre@sec.state.ma.us