Emails to and from DCAMM about the Ripples Report, 1 Jan to 21 Apr 2022
| Tracking # |
22-83 |
| Submitted | April 25, 2022 |
| Est. Completion | Sept. 23, 2022 |
MuckRock users can file, duplicate, track, and share public records requests like this one. Learn more.
Communications
From: David Weimer
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the Massachusetts Public Records Law, I hereby request the following records:
Any and all emails sent or received between 1 January 2022 and 21 April 2022 by John Prudente, Lisa Dixon, or Elaine Campos containing the word "Ripples."
I also request that, if appropriate, fees be waived as we believe this request is in the public interest, as suggested but not stipulated by the recommendations of the Massachusetts Supervisor of Public Records. The requested documents will be made available to the general public free of charge as part of the public information service at MuckRock.com, processed by a representative of the news media/press and is made in the process of news gathering and not for commercial usage.
I expect the request to be filled in an accessible format, including for screen readers, which provide text-to-speech for persons unable to read print. Files that are not accessible to screen readers include, for example, .pdf image files as well as physical documents.
In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.
Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 10 business days, as the statute requires.
Sincerely,
David Weimer
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Massachusetts Public Records Law request, copied below, and originally submitted on April 25, 2022. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: Division Of Capital Asset Management And Maintenance
Public Records Request Number: 22-83
Public Records Request Extension Date: May 25, 2022
Dear Mr. Weimer:
We require a brief extension of time for response to your Public Record Request No. 22-83. While we plan to deliver responsive records in our possession on or before the Public Records Request Extension Date, circumstances may necessitate a further extension. If it appears a further extension may become necessary, we will contact you directly.
Please note that by agreeing to this extension you are not waiving any of your statutory rights under the Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 66, as amended by Chapter 121 of the Acts of 2016 (the “Public Records Law”). Please also note that some or all of the document(s) you requested may not be in the possession, care and/or control of DCAMM and/or may be subject to an exemption from disclosure under the Public Records Law.
Barring the necessity for a further extension, on or before the Public Records Request Extension Date, you will receive the Public Records to which you are entitled, if any. You will also receive a written explanation regarding the document(s) that DCAMM cannot produce, if any.
If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact us at (617) 727-4050 or publicrecords.dcamm@mass.gov<mailto:publicrecords.dcamm@mass.gov>. Thank you for your willingness to extend.
Sincerely,
PUBLIC RECORDS UNIT
[Text Description automatically generated]
Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance
Office of the General Counsel
One Ashburton Place, 15th Floor, Boston, MA 02108
PHONE 857-204-1205
www.mass.gov/dcamm<http://www.mass.gov/dcamm>
Publicrecords.dcamm@mass.gov<mailto:Publicrecords.dcamm@mass.gov>
-
image001
From: David Weimer
No problem. Thanks for the update!
From: Division Of Capital Asset Management And Maintenance
Public Records Request Number: 22-83
Public Records Request Extension Date: June 29, 2022
Dear Mr. Weimer:
Pursuant to your correspondence with Christopher Guerin of this office, we understand you have agreed to an extension of time for response to your Public Record Request No. 22-83. While we plan to deliver responsive records in our possession on or before the Public Records Request Extension Date, circumstances may necessitate a further extension. If it appears a further extension may become necessary, Mr. Guerin will contact you directly.
Please note that by agreeing to this extension you are not waiving any of your statutory rights under the Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 66, as amended by Chapter 121 of the Acts of 2016 (the “Public Records Law”). Please also note that some or all of the document(s) you requested may not be in the possession, care and/or control of DCAMM and/or may be subject to an exemption from disclosure under the Public Records Law.
Barring the necessity for a further extension, on or before the Public Records Request Extension Date, you will receive the Public Records to which you are entitled, if any. You will also receive a written explanation regarding the document(s) that DCAMM cannot produce, if any.
If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact us at (617) 727-4050 or publicrecords.dcamm@mass.gov<mailto:publicrecords.dcamm@mass.gov>. Thank you for your willingness to extend.
Sincerely,
PUBLIC RECORDS UNIT
[Text Description automatically generated]
Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance
Office of the General Counsel
One Ashburton Place, 15th Floor, Boston, MA 02108
PHONE 857-204-1205
www.mass.gov/dcamm<http://www.mass.gov/dcamm>
Publicrecords.dcamm@mass.gov<mailto:Publicrecords.dcamm@mass.gov>
-
image001
From: Division Of Capital Asset Management And Maintenance
Public Records Request Number: 22-83
Public Records Request Extension Date: July 29, 2022
Dear Mr. Weimer:
We require additional time for response to your Public Record Request No. 22-83. While we plan to deliver responsive records in our possession on or before the Public Records Request Extension Date, circumstances may necessitate a further extension. If it appears a further extension may become necessary, this office will contact you directly.
Please note that by agreeing to this extension you are not waiving any of your statutory rights under the Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 66, as amended by Chapter 121 of the Acts of 2016 (the “Public Records Law”). Please also note that some or all of the document(s) you requested may not be in the possession, care and/or control of DCAMM and/or may be subject to an exemption from disclosure under the Public Records Law.
Barring the necessity for a further extension, on or before the Public Records Request Extension Date, you will receive the Public Records to which you are entitled, if any. You will also receive a written explanation regarding the document(s) that DCAMM cannot produce, if any.
If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact us at (617) 727-4050 or publicrecords.dcamm@mass.gov<mailto:publicrecords.dcamm@mass.gov>. Thank you for your willingness to extend.
Sincerely,
PUBLIC RECORDS UNIT
[Text Description automatically generated]
Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance
Office of the General Counsel
One Ashburton Place, 15th Floor, Boston, MA 02108
PHONE 857-204-1205
www.mass.gov/dcamm<http://www.mass.gov/dcamm>
Publicrecords.dcamm@mass.gov<mailto:Publicrecords.dcamm@mass.gov>
-
image001
From: Division Of Capital Asset Management And Maintenance
Public Records Request Number: 22-83
Public Records Request Extension Date: August 24, 2022
Dear Mr. Weimer:
We require additional time for response to your Public Record Request No. 22-83. While we plan to deliver responsive records in our possession on or before the Public Records Request Extension Date, circumstances may necessitate a further extension. If it appears a further extension may become necessary, this office will contact you directly.
Please note that by agreeing to this extension you are not waiving any of your statutory rights under the Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 66, as amended by Chapter 121 of the Acts of 2016 (the “Public Records Law”). Please also note that some or all of the document(s) you requested may not be in the possession, care and/or control of DCAMM and/or may be subject to an exemption from disclosure under the Public Records Law.
Barring the necessity for a further extension, on or before the Public Records Request Extension Date, you will receive the Public Records to which you are entitled, if any. You will also receive a written explanation regarding the document(s) that DCAMM cannot produce, if any.
If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact us at (617) 727-4050 or publicrecords.dcamm@mass.gov<mailto:publicrecords.dcamm@mass.gov>. Thank you for your willingness to extend.
Sincerely,
PUBLIC RECORDS UNIT
[Text Description automatically generated]
Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance
Office of the General Counsel
One Ashburton Place, 15th Floor, Boston, MA 02108
PHONE 857-204-1205
www.mass.gov/dcamm<http://www.mass.gov/dcamm>
Publicrecords.dcamm@mass.gov<mailto:Publicrecords.dcamm@mass.gov>
-
image001
From: Division Of Capital Asset Management And Maintenance
Public Records Request Number: 22-83
Public Records Request Extension Date: September 23, 2022
Dear Mr. Weimer:
We require additional time for response to your Public Record Request No. 22-83. While we plan to deliver responsive records in our possession on or before the Public Records Request Extension Date, circumstances may necessitate a further extension. If it appears a further extension may become necessary, this office will contact you directly.
Please note that by agreeing to this extension you are not waiving any of your statutory rights under the Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 66, as amended by Chapter 121 of the Acts of 2016 (the “Public Records Law”). Please also note that some or all of the document(s) you requested may not be in the possession, care and/or control of DCAMM and/or may be subject to an exemption from disclosure under the Public Records Law.
Barring the necessity for a further extension, on or before the Public Records Request Extension Date, you will receive the Public Records to which you are entitled, if any. You will also receive a written explanation regarding the document(s) that DCAMM cannot produce, if any.
If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact us at (617) 727-4050 or publicrecords.dcamm@mass.gov<mailto:publicrecords.dcamm@mass.gov>. Thank you for your willingness to extend.
Sincerely,
PUBLIC RECORDS UNIT
[Text Description automatically generated]
Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance
Office of the General Counsel
One Ashburton Place, 15th Floor, Boston, MA 02108
PHONE 857-204-1205
www.mass.gov/dcamm<http://www.mass.gov/dcamm>
Publicrecords.dcamm@mass.gov<mailto:Publicrecords.dcamm@mass.gov>
-
image001
From: David Weimer
Re: Public Records Request Number: 22-83
Hi All,
I am wondering about the status of Public Records Request Number: 22-83 that most recently had an extension to September 23, 2022. Do you have any sense of where this request is in the process?
thanks,
Dave
From: Division Of Capital Asset Management And Maintenance
Public Records Request Number: 22-83
Public Records Request Extension Date: November 18, 2022
Dear Mr. Weimer:
We require additional time for response to your Public Record Request No. 22-83. While we plan to deliver responsive records in our possession on or before the Public Records Request Extension Date, circumstances may necessitate a further extension. If it appears a further extension may become necessary, this office will contact you directly.
Please note that by agreeing to this extension you are not waiving any of your statutory rights under the Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 66, as amended by Chapter 121 of the Acts of 2016 (the “Public Records Law”). Please also note that some or all of the document(s) you requested may not be in the possession, care and/or control of DCAMM and/or may be subject to an exemption from disclosure under the Public Records Law.
Barring the necessity for a further extension, on or before the Public Records Request Extension Date, you will receive the Public Records to which you are entitled, if any. You will also receive a written explanation regarding the document(s) that DCAMM cannot produce, if any.
If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact us at (617) 727-4050 or publicrecords.dcamm@mass.gov<mailto:publicrecords.dcamm@mass.gov>. Thank you for your willingness to extend.
Sincerely,
PUBLIC RECORDS UNIT
[Text Description automatically generated]
Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance
Office of the General Counsel
One Ashburton Place, 15th Floor, Boston, MA 02108
PHONE 857-204-1205
www.mass.gov/dcamm<http://www.mass.gov/dcamm>
Publicrecords.dcamm@mass.gov<mailto:Publicrecords.dcamm@mass.gov>
-
image001
From: David Weimer
Hello,
I am writing to appeal a public records request to the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance. On 25 April I requested the following records: "Any and all emails sent or received between 1 January 2022 and 21 April 2022 by John Prudente, Lisa Dixon, or Elaine Campos containing the word 'Ripples.'" To date I have received 6 extension requests, the last asking for an extended deadline of 18 November 2022. I have heard nothing from DCAMM since then. The entirety of my correspondence can be found here: https://www.muckrock.com/foi/boston-3/emails-to-and-from-dcamm-about-the-ripples-report-1-jan-to-21-apr-2022-127983
with thanks,
Dave
From: Boston Police Department
Dear Records Custodian:
Please be aware, this office has received an appeal relating to your entity's response to a request for public records. Attached are further details concerning this appeal. If you have any questions or wish to provide further information relating to this matter, please contact the Public Records Division at pre@sec.state.ma.us<mailto:pre@sec.state.ma.us> or 617-727-2832. Given that the Supervisor of Records must issue a determination within 10 business days of receipt of the appeal petition, please provide any additional information to this office as soon as possible.
Respectfully,
Lori Sullivan, Esq.
Senior23 Attorney
Secretary of the Commonwealth of MA
Public Records Division
One Ashburton Place, Room 1719
Boston, MA 02108
Tel: (617) 727-2832
Email: Lori.Sullivan@SEC.state.ma.us
From: Boston Police Department
Dear Mr. Weimer,
We're in receipt of your appeal to the Secretary of State and apologize for the timing of this response. Our goal is to be as timely as possible but securing and reviewing records for responsiveness can be challenging at times. We'd like to propose a rolling production schedule for this request which will help ensure you begin to get non-exempt responsive records before our process is fully completed. We will assemble the first tranche of records with a projected delivery date of February 14th, with subsequent tranches delivered as soon thereafter as possible. We hope you find this an acceptable path forward.
As always, we appreciate your patience and willingness to work with us as we process your requests.
Respectfully,
CHRISTOPHER GUERIN
Records Access Officer
Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance
MAIN 617-727-4050
DIRECT 617-874-7686
From: David Weimer
Thank you, Christopher. That sounds fine to me. Delivering the records in waves is better than waiting for them all at once.
with thanks,
Dave
From: Boston Police Department
Good afternoon,
Please be aware, the Supervisor of Records has issued a determination relating to an appeal in which you were involved. This determination is attached and available online at: http://www.sec.state.ma.us/AppealsWeb/AppealsStatus.aspx.
If you have any questions, please contact the Public Records Division at 617-727-2832 or pre@sec.state.ma.us<mailto:pre@sec.state.ma.us>.
Thank you,
Ana Kostowski
Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth
Public Records Division
One Ashburton Place, Room 1719
Boston, MA 02108
From: Division Of Capital Asset Management And Maintenance
Public Records Request Number: 22-83
Dear Mr. Weimer:
The Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance (“DCAMM”) received your public records request dated April 25, 2022.
You requested:
Any and all emails sent or received between 1 January 2022 and 21 April 2022 by John Prudente, Lisa Dixon, or Elaine Campos containing the word "Ripples."
Pursuant to recent correspondence from this office, attached you will find the first tranche of responsive records.
Please note, we are withholding certain inter-agency and intra-agency memoranda and correspondence relating to corrections policy positions which are being developed by the Commonwealth pursuant the Deliberative Process Exemption set out at G.L. c. 4, § 7(26)(d) (“Exemption (d)”). Exemption (d) is intended to avoid release of material that could taint the deliberative process if prematurely disclosed. We have identified purely factual information among this correspondence and have not withheld that material among the records.
Furthermore, a portion of the attached material was determined to be exempt pursuant to Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 4, Section 7(26)(n) which reads as follows:
Exemption (n) applies to: records, including, but not limited to, blueprints, plans, policies, procedures and schematic drawings, which relate to internal layout and structural elements, security measures, emergency preparedness, threat or vulnerability assessments, or any other records relating to the security or safety of persons or buildings, structures, facilities, utilities, transportation, cyber security or other infrastructure located within the commonwealth, the disclosure of which, in the reasonable judgment of the record custodian, subject to review by the supervisor of public records under subsection (c) of section 10 of chapter 66, is likely to jeopardize public safety or cyber security.
The redacted portion of the records include links to floor plans, internal layout and structural elements relating to the safety and security of persons and critical infrastructure as well as information on computer network resources, the very records which are the focus of the exemption. See People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Inc. v. Department of Agricultural Resources, 477 Mass. 280 (2017) at 289 (requiring a determination whether and to what degree the record sought resembles the records listed as examples in the statute).
The subject of your request relates to policy development for women’s correctional facilities in Massachusetts. Access to floor plans, layout, structural elements, and security measures shared throughout the buildings, together with the location of certain key personnel, exposes the public, inmates and these valuable Commonwealth assets to threat actors and jeopardizes physical security. Likewise, we redacted links to floor plans, layout, security measures, online meeting sites and related call-in numbers which were utilized only for internal/non-public meetings. Knowledge of network paths, internal call numbers and related technical resources exposes these valuable Commonwealth assets to threat actors and jeopardizes cyber security. It is therefore the determination of this office that disclosure of the redacted portions of the subject record is likely to jeopardize public and cyber safety and security.
If you wish to challenge any aspect of DCAMM’s response, in accordance with G.L. c. 66, § 10 and 950 CMR 32.00, you may appeal to the following office: Supervisor of Public Records, Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, Public Records Division, One Ashburton Place, 17th Floor, Boston, MA 02108, and in accordance with G.L. c. 66, § 10A(c), you have the right to seek judicial review of an unfavorable decision by commencing a civil action in the Superior Court.
Sincerely,
PUBLIC RECORDS UNIT
[Text Description automatically generated]
Division of Capital Asset Management & Maintenance
Office of the General Counsel
One Ashburton Place, 15th Floor, Boston, MA 02108
PHONE 857-204-1205
www.mass.gov/dcamm<http://www.mass.gov/dcamm>
Publicrecords.dcamm@mass.gov<mailto:Publicrecords.dcamm@mass.gov>
-
image001
Files
pages