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Select Board debate leaves town clerk as default Records Access Officer under state rule
Summary
The Select Board debated whether to appoint the town administrator or the town clerk as the municipal Records Access Officer (RAO). Two board motions failed and the board concluded that, under 950 CMR 32, the town clerk is the default RAO if the board does not appoint someone.
The Select Board spent an extended portion of its Nov. 27 meeting debating who should serve as Templeton's Records Access Officer (RAO) under 950 CMR 32, the state regulation implementing the Massachusetts public records law.
Town Administrator argued that the RAO function would logically sit in the town clerk's office as it does in most…
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