Mass Department of Youth Services Internal Investigative Reports

To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to the Massachusetts Public Records Law, M.G.L. c.66, §10, I hereby request the following records:

All internal investigative reports (item 7 under heading O1: Unit Records/Community Records on pp. 275 of the Massachusetts state records retention manual, available here http://www.sec.state.ma.us/arc/arcpdf/0211.pdf) from one year prior to the date that this request is processed.

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 fees cannot be waived, 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,

George LeVines

Please proceed with the request as originally submitted.

Thank you,

George

Stacey,

I called your office today but you were out for the holiday.

If possible what I think might make sense here is one of two things:

1. I narrow the request to the single most recent internal investigative report so that I can learn the components and figure out which ones are most relevant.

2. You can tell me what the components of an internal investigative report are.

Do those seem like appropriate options?

Have a good holiday,

George LeVines

Stacey,

As per our phone conversation...

I am amending this request to the following:

An example of each Internal Review, Incident Report, Witness Statement, Internal
Investigation and subsequent Corrective Action Plan as described in item 7 under heading O1: Unit Records/Community Records on pp. 275 of the Massachusetts state records retention manual, available here http://www.sec.state.ma.us/arc/arcpdf/0211.pdf.

If forms exist a blank form will suffice if not a redacted example.

Thanks again for your time,

George

To Whom It May Concern:

I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information request, copied below, and originally submitted on Nov. 6, 2013. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response, or if further clarification is needed.

Thank you for your help.

To Whom It May Concern:

I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information request, copied below, and originally submitted on Nov. 6, 2013. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response, or if further clarification is needed.

Thank you for your help.