Kayla Fox v. Danvers, Town of - Police Department (SPR 20250531)

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts William Francis Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth Public Records Division Manza Arthur Supervisor of Records February 26, 2025 SPR25/0531 James Lovell Chief of Police Danvers Police Department 120 Ash Street Danvers, MA 01923 Dear Chief Lovell: I have received the petition of Kayla Fox, of the Center for Public Interest, Advocacy, and Collaboration, appealing the nonresponse of the Danvers Police Department (Department) to a request for public records. See G. L. c. 66, § 10A; see also 950 C.M.R. 32.08(1). On February 4, 2025, Ms. Fox requested the following: [1.] An extract of your records management system or database that includes each school-related arrest and each referral to law enforcement conducted during the 2018-2019, 2019-2020, 2020-2021, 2021-2022, and 2022-2023 school year (up until the day the records are produced). . .[;] [2.] If such an extract of the database in question 1 is not possible, please provide police reports and school incident reports on each school-related arrest conducted during the 2018-2019, 2019-2020, 2020-2021, 2021-2022, and 2022-2023 school year (up until the day the records are produced)[;] [3.] Please provide with an unduplicated count of arrested students for each school year including 2018-2019, 2019-2020, 2020-2021, 2021-2022, and 2022- 2023 school year (up until the day the records are produced)[;] [4.] If such an extract of the database in question 1 is not possible, please provide police reports and school incident reports on each referral to law enforcement conducted during the 2018-2019, 2019-2020, 2020-2021, 2021-2022, and 2022- 2023 school year (up until the day the records are produced), per the U.S Department of Education’s Civil Rights Data Collection for that year. For each referral to law enforcement, please include the school, demographic, and incident 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

James Lovell SPR25/0531 Page 2 February 26, 2025 information described in DESE’s School Safety and Discipline Report Data Handbook V. 20.0[;] [5.] Please also provide an unduplicated counts of referrals to law enforcement (as defined above) for each school year including the 2018-2019, 2019-2020, 2020 2021, 2021-2022, and 2022-2023 school year (up until the day the records are produced)[.] Claiming to not yet have received responsive records, Ms. Fox petitioned this office and this appeal, SPR25/0531, was opened as a result. Subsequently, I learned that the Department provided Ms. Fox with a response on February 25, 2025. Where this appeal was opened as a result of the Department’s lack of a written response, I will now consider this administrative appeal closed. Ms. Fox may appeal the substantive nature of the Department’s response within ninety (90) days. See 950 C.M.R. 32.08(1). Sincerely, Manza Arthur Supervisor of Records cc: Kayla Fox