Nuno Alves v. Department of State Police Crime Laboratory (SPR 20180485)

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts William Francis Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth Public Records Division Rebecca S. Murray Supervisor ofR ecords April 17, 2018 SPR18/485 Nuno Alves P.O. Box 1218 Shirley, MA 01464 Dear Mr. Alves: I have received your petition appealing the response of the Department of State Police Crime Laboratory to your request for public records. G. L. c. 66, § 1O A; see also 950 C.M.R. 32.08(1). Specifically, you requested records related to crimes alleged to have been committed by an identified individual. The requirements for an appeal are follows: Such appeal shall be in writing, shall include a copy of the letter by which the request was made and, shall include a copy of all correspondence from the custodian. The Supervisor shall accept an appeal only from a person who had made his or her record request in 1vriting. An oral request, while valid as a public record request pursuant to 950 CMR 32.06(1 )(a), may not be the basis of an appeal under 950 C.M.R. 32.08. See 950 C.M.R .32.08(l)(g). Your petition indicates you were provided redacted records and specifically takes issue with the Department's basis for redaction. Although you provided this office with letters from the Department, the responsive records provided to you were not included in your petition. Given that a copy of the records provided to you by the Department was not included with your petition, we are 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. Sincerely, Rebecca S. Murray Supervisor of Records cc: Kerry A. Collins, Esq. 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