HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 4564        FILED ON: 11/24/2014

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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PRESENTED BY:

James J. O'Day and Bruce E. Tarr

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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 protecting department of children and families social workers’ home addresses.

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PETITION OF:

 

Name:

District/Address:

Date Added:

James J. O'Day

14th Worcester

11/24/2014

Bruce E. Tarr

First Essex and Middlesex

11/24/2014

Bradley H. Jones, Jr.

20th Middlesex

12/5/2014

Brian M. Ashe

2nd Hampden

12/4/2014

Cory Atkins

14th Middlesex

12/5/2014

Bruce J. Ayers

1st Norfolk

12/5/2014

Ruth B. Balser

12th Middlesex

12/8/2014

F. Jay Barrows

1st Bristol

12/8/2014

Carlo Basile

1st Suffolk

12/5/2014

Jennifer E. Benson

37th Middlesex

12/5/2014

Paul Brodeur

32nd Middlesex

12/5/2014

William N. Brownsberger

Second Suffolk and Middlesex

12/5/2014

Linda Campbell

15th Essex

 

James M. Cantwell

4th Plymouth

12/5/2014

Harriette L. Chandler

First Worcester

12/4/2014

Sonia Chang-Diaz

Second Suffolk

12/5/2014

Leah Cole

12th Essex

12/5/2014

Thomas P. Conroy

13th Middlesex

12/8/2014

Edward F. Coppinger

10th Suffolk

12/5/2014

Claire D. Cronin

11th Plymouth

12/4/2014

Daniel Cullinane

12th Suffolk

12/4/2014

Marjorie C. Decker

25th Middlesex

12/5/2014

Sal N. DiDomenico

Middlesex and Suffolk

12/8/2014

Geoff Diehl

7th Plymouth

12/4/2014

Stephen L. DiNatale

3rd Worcester

12/8/2014

Diana DiZoglio

14th Essex

12/5/2014

Daniel M. Donahue

16th Worcester

12/4/2014

Paul J. Donato

35th Middlesex

12/8/2014

Kenneth J. Donnelly

Fourth Middlesex

 

Shawn Dooley

9th Norfolk

12/4/2014

Peter J. Durant

6th Worcester

 

Carolyn C. Dykema

8th Middlesex

12/5/2014

James B. Eldridge

Middlesex and Worcester

12/5/2014

Kimberly N. Ferguson

1st Worcester

12/5/2014

Carole Fiola

6th Bristol

12/5/2014

Linda Dorcena Forry

First Suffolk

12/5/2014

Paul K. Frost

7th Worcester

12/8/2014

Sean Garballey

23rd Middlesex

12/5/2014

Denise C. Garlick

13th Norfolk

12/5/2014

Colleen M. Garry

36th Middlesex

12/8/2014

Susan Williams Gifford

2nd Plymouth

12/5/2014

Danielle W. Gregoire

4th Middlesex

12/5/2014

Sheila C. Harrington

1st Middlesex

 

Paul R. Heroux

2nd Bristol

12/5/2014

Kate Hogan

3rd Middlesex

 

Steven S. Howitt

4th Bristol

12/5/2014

Patricia D. Jehlen

Second Middlesex

12/5/2014

Brian A. Joyce

Norfolk, Bristol and Plymouth

12/5/2014

Louis L. Kafka

8th Norfolk

 

Mary S. Keefe

15th Worcester

12/5/2014

Kay Khan

11th Middlesex

12/5/2014

Peter V. Kocot

1st Hampshire

12/5/2014

Stephen Kulik

1st Franklin

12/8/2014

John J. Lawn, Jr.

10th Middlesex

12/4/2014

Jason M. Lewis

Fifth Middlesex

12/5/2014

David Paul Linsky

5th Middlesex

12/5/2014

Jay Livingstone

8th Suffolk

 

Marc T. Lombardo

22nd Middlesex

12/6/2014

Joan B.  Lovely

Second Essex

 

Timothy R. Madden

Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket

12/4/2014

John J. Mahoney

13th Worcester

12/4/2014

Christopher M. Markey

9th Bristol

12/8/2014

Thomas M. McGee

Third Essex

12/5/2014

Paul McMurtry

11th Norfolk

12/5/2014

James R. Miceli

19th Middlesex

 

Leonard Mirra

2nd Essex

12/8/2014

Michael O. Moore

Second Worcester

12/5/2014

Frank A. Moran

17th Essex

12/8/2014

David M. Nangle

17th Middlesex

12/5/2014

Shaunna O'Connell

3rd Bristol

12/5/2014

Kathleen O'Connor Ives

First Essex

 

Keiko M. Orrall

12th Bristol

12/5/2014

Jerald A. Parisella

6th Essex

12/5/2014

Elizabeth A. Poirier

14th Bristol

12/5/2014

Denise Provost

27th Middlesex

12/5/2014

Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr.

12th Hampden

12/5/2014

Michael J. Rodrigues

First Bristol and Plymouth

12/4/2014

David M. Rogers

24th Middlesex

12/5/2014

Dennis A. Rosa

4th Worcester

12/5/2014

Jeffrey N. Roy

10th Norfolk

12/5/2014

Michael F. Rush

Norfolk and Suffolk

12/5/2014

Daniel J. Ryan

2nd Suffolk

12/5/2014

Jeffrey Sánchez

15th Suffolk

12/8/2014

Tom Sannicandro

7th Middlesex

12/5/2014

Alan Silvia

7th Bristol

12/2/2014

Frank I. Smizik

15th Norfolk

12/5/2014

Thomas M. Stanley

9th Middlesex

12/5/2014

Walter F. Timilty

7th Norfolk

12/4/2014

Aaron Vega

5th Hampden

12/6/2014

David T. Vieira

3rd Barnstable

 

RoseLee Vincent

16th Suffolk

12/4/2014

Chris Walsh

6th Middlesex

12/5/2014

Donald H. Wong

9th Essex

12/5/2014

Jonathan D. Zlotnik

2nd Worcester

12/5/2014


HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 4564        FILED ON: 11/24/2014

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 4560

By Representative O'Day of West Boylston and Senator Tarr, a joint petition (subject to Joint Rule 12) of James J. O'Day, Bruce E. Tarr and others relative to the disclosure of home addresses and telephone numbers of certain employees of the Department of Children and Families.  The Judiciary.

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

 

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In the Year Two Thousand Fourteen

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An Act protecting department of children and families social workers’ home addresses.

 

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

SECTION 1. Subclause (o) of clause Twenty-sixth of section 7 of chapter 4 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2012 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after the word “6”, in line 222, the following words:- ; provided, however, that a department of children and families social worker’s home address and home telephone number shall not be disclosed in any court proceeding and in any proceeding preliminary thereto unless upon order of a court of competent jurisdiction pursuant to section 135C of chapter 112.

SECTION 2. Section 10 of chapter 66 of the General Laws, as so appearing, is hereby amended by inserting after the word “6”, in line 73, the following words:- ; provided, however, that a department of children and families social worker’s home address and home telephone number shall not be disclosed in any court proceeding and in any proceeding preliminary thereto unless upon order of a court of competent jurisdiction pursuant to section 135C of chapter 112.

SECTION 3. Chapter 112 of the General Laws, as so appearing, is hereby amended by inserting after section 135C the following section:-

Section 135D. (a) In any court proceeding and in any proceeding preliminary thereto, a social worker employed by the department of children and families shall have the privilege of refusing to disclose and of preventing a witness from disclosing the social worker’s home address and home telephone number except as otherwise ordered by the court; provided, that the court enters orders and conditions to limit the disclosure so as to protect the privacy and safety of the social worker.

(b) Service of process, summons or subpoena upon a department of children and families social worker in any court proceeding and in any proceeding preliminary thereto, shall be made upon the agency employing such social worker and in accordance with the Massachusetts Rules of Civil or Criminal Procedure governing any service of process. For the purpose of such service the employing agency, upon request, shall certify to the summoning party the name and work address of any such social worker as disclosed by its records, and service upon parties at a work address so certified shall be sufficient.