Legal Opinion

Georgiou v. Commissioner of Department of Industrial Accidents

Massachusetts Appeals Court

Decided September 25, 2006No. 05-P-348PublishedCited by 12 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtLenk, J.

These consolidated actions for declaratory and injunctive relief raise identical questions under the Massachusetts public records statute, G. L. c. 66, § 10. In each case, the plaintiff requested disclosure of a limited subset of information that the Department of Industrial Accidents (depart*429ment) collects from employers and maintains in its so-called “first reports of injury” (first reports). The department responded affirmatively to the requests but indicated that it would redact the names and addresses of injured workers from documents responsive to the requests. After the supervisor of…

2Cases cited18 opinions

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