> By Maggie Mulvihill
> http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=108212
> intrusively questioning citizens

> By Jessica Fargen and Marie Szaniszlo
> http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=108035&format=text
> http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=108110&format=text
> ...routinely denying lawful requests for basic...information...

          Boston City Council, Boston City Clerk,
          Boston City Council Stenographer Ellen Fritch all have
          denied access to
          a. the Council stenographic machine output,
          b. transcribed output from the stenographic machine

          What passes for minutes is digested too briefly,
          too spare for any person to make sense of what
          transpired during public meetings of the Boston City
          Council.

          Docket numbers are not cross referenced,
          indexed,
          papers of the Mayor mentioned in the Council minutes
          are not described as to content.

          The Council Stenographer contributes to election
          campaigns.

          c. City Department heads routinely deny timely access
             to departmental annual reports. City Department
             heads and the Mayor's Office evade the annual report
             requirement of the City ordinances by using a
             memoranda format in reporting annually about City
             Departments. Instead of sending departmental annual
             reports to the City Council as required, Department
             heads' reports are disguised as memoranda to the
             Mayor's Office.

          d. The Boston Finance Commission routinely denies or
             delays access to Commission Reports. Information
             about the dates of Boston Finance Commission public
             meetings and names of people who are appointed to
             the Boston Finance Commission are routinely denied
             or delayed. The names of the people who are
             appointed to the Boston Finance Commission do not
             appear on the Reports.

           e. We need a
              1. Mayoral Directive and a
              2. City Council Order
              for the more routine transmittal of City Public
              Documents and City Departments' Public Documents to
              our Boston Public Library Government Documents
              Department. These public documents should also
              appear on the web at
              http://bpl.org/research/govdocs/local.htm

           f. The City Council Reference Library should be more
              open and available instead of the routine denial or
              delay for access to materials there and routine
              denial or delay for access to details about the
              City Council Reference Library not already on the
              web at
              http://cityofboston.gov/citycouncil/citycouncilpub.asp

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