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BOSTON GLOBE MEDIA PARTNERS, LLC v. DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE INFORMATION SERVICES

SJC-12690.

484 Mass. 279 (2020)

BOSTON GLOBE MEDIA PARTNERS, LLC, v. DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE INFORMATION SERVICES & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

March 12, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elizabeth N. Dewar , State Solicitor ( Daniel J. Hammond , Assistant Attorney General, also present) for Department of Criminal Justice Information Services & another.

Jason M. Lederman , Assistant Corporation Counsel, for Boston Police Department.

Jonathan M. Albano for the plaintiff.

The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:

Ruth A. Bourquin & Matthew R. Segal for American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts.

Robert J. Ambrogi for Massachusetts Newspaper Publishers Association.

Pauline Quirion for Greater Boston Legal Services & another.

Present: GANTS, C.J., LENK, GAZIANO, LOWY, BUDD, & CYPHER, JJ.

In the summer of 2012, the State police arrested a Barnstable law enforcement officer for operating a motor vehicle while under the influence. The State police arrested a Tewksbury police officer for the same offense in August 2014. Following this second incident, a reporter for Boston Globe Media Partners, LLC (Globe), made public records...

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