Lisa Joseph v. Westford Police Department (SPR 20190928)

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts William Francis Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth Public Records Division Rebecca S. Murray Supervisor ofR ecords May 15, 2019 SPR19l928 Lisa Joseph Dear Ms. Joseph: This office has received your email appealing the lack of compliance of the Westford Police Department (Department) to your request for records. Specifically, you requested a copy of an identified incident report as well as "any and all other police reports involving ... " an individual associated with the aforementioned report. After reviewing this information I find that I am unable to accept your appeal. The Public Records Access Regulations, which govern the procedural aspects of all appeals, require that an appeal to this office be filed within ninety days of the date of the request letter, or within ninety days of the date of a written response from the record custodian. See 950 C.M.R. 32.08 (l)(d); 950 C.M.R. 32.08 (l)(e). The attachments you provided with your appeal have exceeded the ninety day limit. You may make a new request to the Department for the same information. The Department has ten business days in which to respond to your new request. G. L. c. 66, § lO(b). If the Department denies your request or fails to respond within ten business days, you may appeal to this office within the statutory time frame. At that time this office will review the matter. Sincerely, Rebecca S. Murray Supervisor of Records cc: Michelle Wright 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