An improved public records law was passed on Beacon Hill two years ago, but just five miles away, the Medford Police Department continues to neglect its legal obligations to records requesters and the public.
The revised public records law went into effect last year in Massachusetts. It set deadlines for the production of records, restricted fees agencies could charge for providing documents, and most notably, permitted courts to award attorneys’ fees for successful public records lawsuits (though it didn’t make the provision mandatory, as is the case in some states).
