> 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 List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance