A Guide to the Massachusetts Public Records Law
licensed under chapter one hundred and seventy–five or any legal entity that is
self insured and provides health care benefits to its employees.
procedures and schematic drawings, which relate to internal layout and
structural elements, security measures, emergency preparedness, threat or
vulnerability assessments, or any other records relating to the security or
safety of persons or buildings, structures, facilities, utilities, transportation,
cyber security or other infrastructure located within the commonwealth, the
disclosure of which, in the reasonable judgment of the record custodian,
subject to review by the supervisor of public records under subsection (c) of
section 10 of chapter 66, is likely to jeopardize public safety or cyber security.
(o) the home address, personal email address and home telephone number of
an employee of the judicial branch, an unelected employee of the general
court, an agency, executive office, department, board, commission, bureau,
division or authority of the commonwealth, or of a political subdivision
thereof or of an authority established by the general court to serve a public
purpose, in the custody of a government agency which maintains records
identifying persons as falling within those categories; provided that the
information may be disclosed to an employee organization under chapter
150E, a nonprofit organization for retired public employees under chapter
180, or a criminal justice agency as defined in section 167 of chapter 6.
(p) the name, home address, personal email address and home telephone
number of a family member of a commonwealth employee, contained in a
record in the custody of a government agency which maintains records
identifying persons as falling within the categories listed in subclause (o).
(q) Adoption contact information and indices therefore of the adoption contact
registry established by section 31 of chapter 46.
(r) Information and records acquired under chapter 18C by the office of the
child advocate.
(s) trade secrets or confidential, competitively-sensitive or other proprietary
information provided in the course of activities conducted by a governmental
body as an energy supplier under a license granted by the department of
public utilities pursuant to section 1F of chapter 164, in the course of activities
in the course of activities conducted by a cooperative consisting of
governmental entities organized pursuant to section 136 of said chapter 164,
when such governmental body, municipal aggregator or cooperative
determines that such disclosure will adversely affect its ability to conduct
business in relation to other entities making, selling or distributing electric
power and energy; provided, however, that this subclause shall not exempt a
public entity from disclosure required of a private entity so licensed.