Author: opencommonwealth

The Malden Community Fund, Inc. has been served an appeal from The Massachusetts Supervisor of Public Records…

The Malden Community Fund, Inc. has been notified through their president and director, Maria Luise, Esq. that an appeal for public records has been filed agains them, for failure to respond to a public records request under Massachusetts Public Records Law M.G.L. c66, §§ 10-10A.

Some of the Malden City Council Get it, and others…

If you want to see and hear it for yourself, the video below provides the whole meeting and his comments are at 01:52:49.22 into the meeting. OpenCommonwealth commends both the Council President and the City Solicitor for understanding and contemplating the Open Meeting Law, Councillor Spadafora, clearly has not learned what the law is.

#PublicRecords Another 817 Antonietta “Toni” Mertz Emails, another $120.00

OpenCommonwealth wants to know why Toni Mertz has BOTH a Malden Public Schools email account and a City of Malden email account. She is the ONLY Assistant Superintendent with both, she was never and is not a City employee. The City reports that she has “Over 49,000 Emails” in her City Email. The Schools also […]

“It is our position that the records of this organization are not subject to public records laws.” – Maria Louise

The City of Malden believes this for a non-profit setup by and exclusively run by: 1. Maria Louise – Special Assistant to the Mayor 2. Deborah Burke – Director / Strategic Planning and Community Development for the City 3. Ronald Hogan – Chief Strategy Officer of the City Funded with at least $400,000.00 of General […]

The Public Records Law Says…

Custodial Index of Records:To facilitate closure of this matter and to aid in the cooperation of the parties, I find that the School must provide Mr. Friedman with a custodial index of the records and the basis of the exemption claims for each record or each category of records. Please note that “the Supervisor may […]