Andrew Quemere v. Revere, City of - Police Department (SPR 20201680)

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts William Francis Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth Public Records Division Rebecca S. Murray Supervisor of Records September 28, 2020 SPR20/1680 Lt. Michelle Mangino City of Revere – Police Department 400 Revere Beach Parkway Revere, MA 02151 Dear Lt. Mangino: I have received the petition of Andrew Quemere appealing the nonresponse of the City of Revere Police Department (Department) to a request for public records. G. L. c. 66, § 10A; see also 950 C.M.R. 32.08(1). Specifically, on August 25, 2020, Mr. Quemere requested the following records within the possession of the Department: • All policies, procedures, guidelines, and training records related to the Police Department’s internal affairs investigations; • All division-wide and department-wide reports/audits of the Police Department’s internal affairs investigations for the years 2010 to the present (by division-wide and department-wide, I mean reports/audits that provide an overview of complaints/internal investigations for an entire division or the entire department, not reports/audits about a specific incident); • All annual data on the number of complaints and internal affairs investigations for the years 2010 to the present (if the records containing the data contain data for additional years, it is not necessary to remove the extra information); • All data on the total number of complaints against each department employee. Claiming to not yet have received responsive records, Mr. Quemere petitioned this office and this appeal, SPR20/1680, was opened as a result. 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

Lt. Michelle Mangino SPR20/1680 Page 2 September 28, 2020 Despite being notified of the opening of this appeal by a staff member of the Public Records Division, the Department has yet to provide a response with respect to Mr. Quemere’s August 25, 2020 request. Accordingly, the Department is ordered to provide Mr. Quemere with said response, provided in a manner consistent with this Order, the Public Records Law and its Regulations within ten (10) business days. It is preferable to send an electronic copy of this response to this office at pre@sec.state.ma.us. Mr. Quemere may appeal the substantive nature of the Department’s response within ninety (90) days. See 950 C.M.R. 32.08(1). Sincerely, Rebecca S. Murray Supervisor of Records cc: Mr. Andrew Quemere