Massachusetts and Kentucky are not so very far apart in this regard:
"Across Massachusetts, today is actually tomorrow.
"Except in Worcester, where it's already the day after tomorrow. But if that would make it the weekend, then it's the following Monday instead, and that is barring any holidays ⦠unless, of course, you hand-deliver a request for public records, in which case today might be today if the law is enforced. Don't hold your breath on that one.
"This nonsense is par for the course thanks to what is by some measures the worst public access records law in the US.
"Massachusetts continues to drift into the dark. Our public records are increasingly unreachable and timely access does not exist in this state. Ignoring the basis of appeals and ignoring the law are only two of many tactics employed to make a joke out of records access in this state. This lack of enforcement allows bad practices to continue and bad actors to operate in bad faith to the detriment of the public. This is one of innumerable examples."
Kentuckians must remember this, and fight to preserve the Commonwealth's existing open government laws, as we enter the 2022 legislative session.
