{"id":4793,"date":"2016-09-10T20:33:16","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T00:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/?p=4793"},"modified":"2016-09-10T20:36:39","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T00:36:39","slug":"foia-for-fun-and-liberation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/10\/foia-for-fun-and-liberation\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirate Podcasts &#8211; Episode 7: FOIA for Fun and Liberation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maya Shaffer is a reporter for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baystateexaminer.com\/\n\">Bay State Examiner<\/a>, and someone who&#8217;s used Massachusetts public records law enough to know it inside and out.  This is a great talk, where Maya tells her stories of public records requesters in the state of Massachusetts.  Highlights include,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> The time Maya made an in-person FOIA request to NEMLEC &#8212; the Northeaster Massachusetts Law Enforcement Council.  NEMLEC wasn&#8217;t sure how to respond to an in-person request, so they called 911.\n<li>An agency proposed a $400 fee to process a public records request.  The agency takes the $400, but never produces the records.\n<li>How the city of Boston wanted to charge $10,000 to produce emails between the city, and the Massachusetts Municipal Association\n<li>How Massachusetts public records laws aren&#8217;t &#8220;real laws&#8221;, in the sense that they&#8217;re routinely violated, and the violating party is never punished.\n<li>The level of apathy and disdain that the Secretary of the Commonwealth has for Massachusetts public records laws.\n<li>The really neat things you can find out, if you manage to get your public records request fulfilled.\n<\/ul>\n<p>Maya&#8217;s talk was record on June 25, 2016, during PirateCon 2016.<\/p>\n<p>You can listen below, or download a copy from the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/foia-for-fun-and-liberation\">Internet Archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><audio src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/foia-for-fun-and-liberation\/foia-for-fun-and-liberation.mp3\" controls=\"controls\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maya Shaffer is a reporter for the Bay State Examiner, and someone who&#8217;s used Massachusetts public records law enough to know it inside&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1W8mg-1fj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4793"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4796,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4793\/revisions\/4796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}