> 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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