Mon, May 24 at 4:23 PM
Name of Custodian of Records
Kimberly Scanlon
Medford City Hall
85 George P Hassett Drive
Medford, MA 02155
Dear Custodian of Records and/ or Attorney Scanlon
Under the Massachusetts Public Records Act § 66-10 et seq., I am requesting an opportunity to inspect or obtain copies of public records that
1)All
city council meeting minutes documents where Council President
Caraviello has called a petitioner and/or a paper out of order in the
past five months
2)Every single document since the hiring of Clerk Adam Hurtubise where the city clerk has altered or re-written a petition
3)Every
document where city clerk Hurtubise has sent to a petitioner that he
was changing the petition (which, of course, irrevocably alters the
meeting minutes,
a violation of the Open Meeting Law)
4)During
the Muccini-Burke administration this petitioner filed a complaint with
Neil Osborne's office on Richard F. Caraviello, Frederick N. Dello
Russo, Jr. and
Adam Knight. I
sometimes send public records requests to ensure that my previous
documents are still on file. I would like those pages of complaints
files
with Neil Osborne's office to ensure they still exist, which benefits the public, the taxpayers, the voters.
5)All
documents in the past five months dating back to January 1, 2021 of
public complaints filed with Neil Osborne and his response(s) to those
complaints.
If there are any fees for searching or copying these records, please inform me if the cost will exceed $5.00
However, I would also like to request a waiver of all fees in that the
disclosure of the requested information is in the public interest and
will contribute significantly to the public’s understanding of the
Open Meeting Law, Robert's Rules of Order, the City Council rules, and
how to hold out-of-compliance public officials accountable. Also,
though this is for my personal reporting, your office understands that I
am a professional journalist quoted in the NY Times, Boston Globe, in
multiple books, with writings in music and technical journals published
around the globe - locally the Medford News Weekly and the Somerville
News Weekly, etc. That these documents are of GREAT public interest is
the reality. Medford Information Central reached 2-3 hits a minute at
some points last week. There being
1,440 minutes in a day, see the popularity of these political writings:
4:19 pm Monday May 24, 2021
All Time1,860,328
/ Today 897 since 8 pm last night; yesterday 744 page views, this
month 22,704 (about 1,000 a day) last month 19,959 page views which, of
course,
equals 42,663 page views in 54 days ...of great public interest to the citizens, businesses, civic groups, visitors to Medford.
This information is not being sought for commercial purposes.
The Massachusetts Public Records Act requires a response to this request within 10 days. If access to the records I am requesting will take longer than this amount of time, please contact me with information about when I might expect copies or the ability to inspect the requested records.
If you deny any or all of this request, please cite each specific exemption you feel justifies the refusal to release the information and notify me of the appeal procedures available to me under the law.
Thank you for considering my request. Please correspond via e mail
Sincerely,
Joe Viglione
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