HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2477        FILED ON: 1/15/2015

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 112

 

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

1/15/2015

Bruce E. Tarr

First Essex and Middlesex

1/17/2015

Linda Dean Campbell

15th Essex

8/16/2019

Timothy R. Madden

Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket

8/16/2019

Leonard Mirra

2nd Essex

8/16/2019

Benjamin Swan

11th Hampden

8/16/2019

Brian A. Joyce

Norfolk, Bristol and Plymouth

8/16/2019

Angelo J. Puppolo, Jr.

12th Hampden

1/21/2015

Peter J. Durant

6th Worcester

8/16/2019

Tackey Chan

2nd Norfolk

8/16/2019

Denise Provost

27th Middlesex

8/16/2019

James J. Dwyer

30th Middlesex

8/16/2019

Sonia Chang-Diaz

Second Suffolk

8/16/2019

David M. Rogers

24th Middlesex

8/16/2019

Tricia Farley-Bouvier

3rd Berkshire

8/16/2019

Linda Dorcena Forry

First Suffolk

8/16/2019

Daniel M. Donahue

16th Worcester

8/16/2019

William N. Brownsberger

Second Suffolk and Middlesex

8/16/2019

Carolyn C. Dykema

8th Middlesex

8/16/2019

James M. Cantwell

4th Plymouth

8/16/2019

Chris Walsh

6th Middlesex

8/16/2019

Peter V. Kocot

1st Hampshire

8/16/2019

John J. Lawn, Jr.

10th Middlesex

8/16/2019

John F. Keenan

Norfolk and Plymouth

8/16/2019

Danielle W. Gregoire

4th Middlesex

8/16/2019

Claire D. Cronin

11th Plymouth

8/16/2019

Kathleen O'Connor Ives

First Essex

8/16/2019

RoseLee Vincent

16th Suffolk

8/16/2019

Thomas A. Golden, Jr.

16th Middlesex

8/16/2019

Frank A. Moran

17th Essex

8/16/2019

Anne M. Gobi

Worcester, Hampden, Hampshire and Middlesex

8/16/2019

Michelle M. DuBois

10th Plymouth

8/16/2019

Mary S. Keefe

15th Worcester

8/16/2019

Thomas M. Petrolati

7th Hampden

8/16/2019

Keiko M. Orrall

12th Bristol

8/16/2019

Tom Sannicandro

7th Middlesex

8/16/2019

Gailanne M. Cariddi

1st Berkshire

8/16/2019

Evandro C. Carvalho

5th Suffolk

8/16/2019

Denise C. Garlick

13th Norfolk

8/16/2019

Kay Khan

11th Middlesex

8/16/2019

Bradley H. Jones, Jr.

20th Middlesex

8/16/2019

Jonathan Hecht

29th Middlesex

8/16/2019

Leah Cole

12th Essex

8/16/2019

Paul McMurtry

11th Norfolk

8/16/2019

Thomas J. Calter

12th Plymouth

8/16/2019

Jose F. Tosado

9th Hampden

8/16/2019

Antonio F. D. Cabral

13th Bristol

8/16/2019

Brian M. Ashe

2nd Hampden

8/16/2019

Shaunna L. O'Connell

3rd Bristol

8/16/2019

Theodore C. Speliotis

13th Essex

8/16/2019

Carlos Gonzalez

10th Hampden

8/16/2019

Louis L. Kafka

8th Norfolk

8/16/2019

Donald H. Wong

9th Essex

8/16/2019

John J. Mahoney

13th Worcester

8/16/2019

Daniel Cullinane

12th Suffolk

8/16/2019

Barbara A. L'Italien

Second Essex and Middlesex

8/16/2019

Kate Hogan

3rd Middlesex

8/16/2019

Patricia A. Haddad

5th Bristol

8/16/2019

James T. Welch

Hampden

8/16/2019

Kate D. Campanale

17th Worcester

8/16/2019

Elizabeth A. Malia

11th Suffolk

8/16/2019

Marc R. Pacheco

First Plymouth and Bristol

8/16/2019

James M. Murphy

4th Norfolk

8/16/2019

Paul W. Mark

2nd Berkshire

8/16/2019

Michael O. Moore

Second Worcester

8/16/2019

Kevin J. Kuros

8th Worcester

8/16/2019

David M. Nangle

17th Middlesex

8/16/2019

Sal N. DiDomenico

Middlesex and Suffolk

8/16/2019

Carole A. Fiola

6th Bristol

8/16/2019

Joan B.  Lovely

Second Essex

8/16/2019


HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2477        FILED ON: 1/15/2015

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 112

By Representative O’Day of West Boylston and Senator Tarr, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 112) of James J. O’Day, Bruce E. Tarr and others relative to protecting Department of Children and Families social workers’ home addresses.  Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities.

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

 

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In the One Hundred and Eighty-Ninth General Court
(2015-2016)

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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:
 

“Chapter 233 of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after section 20M the following section:-

Section 20N. (a) No court shall permit or require, and no social worker employed by the department of children and families, or any other witness shall be required, to disclose such social worker’s home address or home telephone number in any court proceeding or in any proceeding preliminary thereto or in any documents filed with the court, except as otherwise ordered by the court; provided, that said order of the court includes conditions to limit the disclosure of such address or phone number 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.”