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BROGAN v. SCHOOL COMMITTEE OF WESTPORT

401 Mass. 306 (1987)

516 N.E.2d 159

NORMAN BROGAN & others vs. SCHOOL COMMITTEE OF WESTPORT & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Bristol.

December 16, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey W. Jacobsen for the plaintiffs.

Carlton A. Lees, Town Counsel, for the intervener.

Duane R. Batista for the defendants.

Timothy B. Gassert, Special Assistant Attorney General, for the Supervisor of Public Records, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, LIACOS, NOLAN, & LYNCH, JJ.

HENNESSEY, C.J.

The plaintiffs appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court in which a judge ruled that the Westport school committee's employee attendance and absentee records are public records within the meaning of G.L.c. 4, § 7, Twenty-sixth (c) (1986 ed.), and that, therefore, these records are subject to mandatory disclosure pursuant to G.L.c. 66, § 10 (1986 ed.).

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