Globe Newspaper Co. v. District Attorney for the Middle District

The defendants, six district attorneys, appeal from a declaratory judgment entered in favor of the plaintiff, Globe Newspaper Company (Globe), that “docket numbers of criminal cases prosecuted in public judicial proceedings, not correlated with defendant-specific information,” are public records within the meaning of G. L. c. 4, § 7, Twenty-sixth, that they are subject to mandatory disclosure pursuant to G. L. c. 66, § 10 (public records statute), and that such disclosure is not prohibited by the Criminal Offender Record Information statute, G. L. c. 6, §§ 167 et seq. (CORI statute). We…