Historic domestic assault records

To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to the Massachusetts Public Records Law, I hereby request the following records:

Any and all arrest/ incident reports involving Alan Morton Dershowitz and Sue Barlach filed by Cambridge Police Department and/or Harvard University Police Department.
The incidents took place at Harvard University housing on Robinson Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts between the years 1970-1974.

Although there is typically an exemption for reports of domestic assault under Massachusetts law, I believe that as a news organization, we have a right to these documents as a matter of public interest. Alan Dershowitz is the former criminal defense attorney for convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. He is also the defendant named in a defamation lawsuit, in the Southern District of New York, by alleged Epstein sex trafficking victim, Virginia Giuffre.

Furthermore, Sue Barlach, who is understood to be the victim here, died of an apparent suicide in 1983. Therefore, the public interest for restricting disclosure of such reports has long expired, and disclosure now is warranted. Her death is noted in a number of news articles, including last month:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/08/05/alan-dershowitz-devils-advocate
Sue Barlach moved to New York, and for several years worked as a research librarian for the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. On New Year’s Eve, 1983, she drowned in the East River, in an apparent suicide.
It is also mentioned here: ‘Sue Dershowitz died in 1984.’
https://books.google.com/books?id=DM0aTJaUrLIC&pg=PA32&lpg=PA32&dq=Sue+Barlach+suicide&source=bl&ots=mR11kZN_HS&sig=ACfU3U0fmJbuCIxvKUXN1r0751qDp_31FA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiUjt3PsqbkAhUx2FkKHQrPCZQ4FBDoATAAegQICRAB#v=onepage&q=Sue%20Barlach%20suicide&f=false

If you regard any of the requested records as subject to exemption from disclosure under the law, I hereby request that you exercise your discretion and disclose them nonetheless. If you decide to withhold any request records, please do not deny the entire request and release the information available under the law.

If you cannot fulfil certain parts of this request or certain portions must be redacted please provide any reasonable separable portion of a requested record after removing or redacting those portions claimed to be exempt. Please explain in writing the justification for redacting the record, indicate the extent of any redactions on the portion of the record which is made available or published and where technically feasible indicate on the redacted portion itself the specific exemption(s) claimed.

I make this request on behalf of DailyMail.com, an online news publication in the U.S. The records disclosed pursuant to this request will be used in the preparation of news articles for dissemination to the public.

If you have any questions on this request, please contact me at 347-344-7291 or louise.boyle@dailymail.com.

I look forward to your reply within 10 business days, as the statute requires.

Many thanks,

Louise Boyle
Senior Reporter
Daily Mail Online|51 Astor Place, 9th floor, New York NY 10003

Tel: +1 347 344 7291
Email: louise.boyle@dailymail.com

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,

Louise Boyle