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Senator urges extending public-records law to governor and legislature and adopting information‑governance standards
Summary
Senator Becca Rausch told the committee Massachusetts is currently the only state that exempts both the governor and the legislature from the public‑records law; she urged passage of S.2210 and S.2207 to increase transparency and create consistent information‑governance practices across public bodies.
Senator Becca Rausch told the Joint Committee on June 24 that S.2210 would extend the Massachusetts Public Records Law to the Governor’s Office and the Legislature, bringing the Commonwealth in line with other states. "We are the only state in the entire nation in which the legislature and the governor are both exempt from the public records law," Rausch said during testimony.
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