Bos. Globe Media Partners, LLC v. Dep't of Pub. Health

**428In this public records case, Boston Globe Media Partners, LLC (Globe), appeals from an order of the Superior Court granting *130the Department of Public Health's (DPH) motion for summary judgment and denying the Globe's motion for summary judgment. The Globe asked the judge to declare that electronic indices of publicly available birth and marriage data constitute public records and to order DPH to produce them. DPH argued that it could withhold the requested indices pursuant to G. L. c. 4, § 7, Twenty-sixth (a ) (exemption [a ] ), which exempts from the definition of public records…