Decisions made by the Public Records Division of the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
We’ve collected (or “scraped”) Massachusetts public records appeals and made them available as a searchable database on Woke Windows.
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By default, we search the text of any determinations attached to an appeal and the name of the Custodian to whom the request was submitted.
Combine AND and OR operators:
"internal affairs" AND ("boston police" OR "cambridge police")
Appeals where the Custodian field contains “Salem”:
custodian ~ salem
Appeals where the Response Provided Date is set:
set? resp_prov_date
Appeals submitted by news organizations seeking internal affairs records from law enforcement agencies and limited to those appeals where a response was eventually provided by the agency:
("boston globe" OR wbur OR wgbh OR wcvb OR "boston herald" OR masslive OR "boston magazine" OR "commonwealth magazine" OR "Patriot Ledger") AND set? resp_prov_date AND "electronic copy of this response" AND (police OR sheriff OR correction) AND ("internal affairs" OR disciplin OR "internal invest" OR "citizen complaint")