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FOIA

MAYA SHAFFER

AG HEALEY’S OFFICE BLOCKS ACCOUNTS ON SOCIAL MEDIA, SHIELDS BAD ACTORS ACROSS STATE

Now records we have received from Healey’s shed light on why her office may be avoiding the issue—her office is also guilty of the same kind of questionable social media management.

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MAYA SHAFFER February 26, 2020
MAYA SHAFFER

FEATURE FOLLOW-UP: COP BLOCK

While there have indeed been formal requests made for public information and several articles written about CPD misconduct, it is news to us that we are on the “attack.”

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MAYA SHAFFER January 15, 2020
MAYA SHAFFER

THE WESTERN MASS POLICE DEPARTMENT THAT HAS HOSTED TWO-DOZEN EVENTS AT CHICK-FIL-A

“They are a great company. They do great work here. End of discussion.”

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MAYA SHAFFER November 4, 2019
BINJ ONLINE

MAKING FOIA WORK: THE METHODS AND DESIGN BEHIND OUR INVESTIGATION INTO GUN PROCUREMENT IN MASS

A single convenient clearinghouse for all of the material we produced—from links to features in English and Spanish, to a detailed Participatory Design Process Book

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BINJ ONLINE June 25, 2019
F.I.G.H.T.

F.I.G.H.T. SUBOXONE: HOW DID WE GET HERE?

By 2014, it was a full-court press, with Suboxone lobbyists pushing more than 10 bills on Beacon Hill

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F.I.G.H.T. February 12, 2019
SETH KERSHNER

SMALL TOWN SWAT TEAM

A special investigation into the ‘militarization of Mayberry’ in Mass For a police department of only 40 officers, the April 23, 2015, raid by Ludlow Special Response Team had to be an all-hands-on-deck affair. At shortly past five o’clock in the morning, a team of 12 Ludlow officers — amounting to more than

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SETH KERSHNER November 15, 2017
DANIEL DEFRAIA

WATCHING BOSTON

The true beginning of a false narrative: an investigation into the Hub’s Neighborhood Watch Eight days after 16-year-old Norman Hawkesworth shot and killed Stephen Lanigan, John Winston found the murder weapon — a .22 caliber long pistol — while jogging in West Roxbury and contacted the police. According to Suffolk County court documents, Hawkesworth had

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DANIEL DEFRAIA July 11, 2017
BAY STATE EXAMINER

SWAT INC.

The Commonwealth’s most infamous militarized police force continues to flout records law BY MAYA SHAFFER AND ANDREW QUEMERE “There’s just a receptionist working there, and she’s afraid of them. They have a camera in her face, and they’re kind of yelling at her, and she doesn’t know what to do.” So claimed

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BAY STATE EXAMINER November 4, 2015
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