Colman Herman of Commonwealth magazine reports about the difficulties facing Boston Globe business reporter Todd Wallack in obtaining severance agreements of state employees from the governor’s office.
“Patrick claims that, as governor, he is exempt from the Public Records Law as a result of a 1997 court case (Lambert v. Executive Director Judicial Nominating Council), although aides maintain Patrick voluntarily complies with most records requests.
“Last October, Alan Cote, who handles public records appeals on behalf of Galvin, ruled in Wallack’s favor, ordering the governor’s office to produce the records for Wallack in unredacted form.
“Cote also took note in his ruling of a side issue raised in a letter he received from Richard Barry, Jr., general counsel to the National Association of Government Employees, which represents about 12,000 state employees. Berry said he opposed Wallack’s appeal because nearly all the settlement agreements reached between the state and employees include ‘a confidentiality provision in which both parties agree that the terms of the agreement shall remain confidential.'”
Read more here. Despite the ruling, Wallack still has not received the documents.
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Wallack is the same one who broke the story of corporations mis-reporting executive compensation in their proxy statements simply because of arithmetic errors in adding up their data. He's a sharp one. Let's hope this goes in his favor, although I'm not at all surprised the state is stalling him.