The Massachusetts public records law (MGL Ch 66 §10)
provides that the custodian of any such record shall respond to a request for a
copy of that record within ten days. It also provides that (in most cases ) such
a copy shall cost five dollars for the first six pages and fifty cents for each
additional page. If a search is required to provide such a record, the
requester shall “pay the actual expense of such search.”
A test co-sponsored by The
Boston Globe and WCVB
television found that 58% of the cities and towns in Massachusetts failed to
comply with the law.
