Amendment #1 to H3858

Failure to pay for public records requests

Mr. Jones of North Reading moves to amend the bill in SECTION 5 by inserting in proposed section 10 the following new subsection:-

“(g) The records access officer shall reserve the right to deny public records requests to a requester for failures to compensate the agency, or city or town, for previous public records requests. The records access officer shall provide a written notification to the requester detailing the reasons behind the denial, and itemizing any and all balances attributed to the previous records request.”