HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 519        FILED ON: 1/11/2013

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1235

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PRESENTED BY:

Antonio F. D. Cabral

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To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
Court assembled:

The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill:

An Act defining court administrative records as public records.

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PETITION OF:

 

Name:

District/Address:

Date Added:

Antonio F. D. Cabral

13th Bristol

1/11/2013

Jason M. Lewis

Fifth Middlesex

 

Martha M. Walz

8th Suffolk

 


HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 519        FILED ON: 1/11/2013

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1235

By Mr. Cabral of New Bedford, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 1235) of Antonio F. D. Cabral, Jason M. Lewis and Martha M. Walz for legislation to include court administrative records in the law defining public records.  The Judiciary.

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

 

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In the Year Two Thousand Thirteen

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An Act defining court administrative records as public records.

 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in the General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

SECTION 1.  Section 7 of chapter 4 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2010 official edition, is hereby amended by  inserting after the word “thereof,” at line 131, the following words:--

or of the office of court management or the office of probation.

SECTION 2.  Section 7 of said chapter 4, as so appearing is hereby further amended by inserting at the end of subclause (f) of clause twenty-sixth the following words:--

, and information regarding the supervision of individual named probationers; provided that when such information is introduced in a judicial proceeding it shall be publicly accessible in the same manner as other judicial records

SECTION 3.  Section 100 of chapter 276 is hereby repealed.