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Woman adds to her pile of documents
By adamg on Fri, 07/13/2012 - 9:42am
A Revere woman was charged with stealing copies of some of her criminal records out of East Boston District Court this week, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
Nicole DiFazi, 24, allegedly entered the clerk's office Monday and asked for copies of some of the records in her criminal file. The DA's office says:
Clerk's office staff told Boston Police that Difazi was rude and insulting from the moment she walked in the door and requested copies of paperwork related to her past offenses. Difazi was told that she could review the records but that there would be a fee for copying them. Instead, investigators say, Difazi simply left the Meridian Street courthouse with them.
Court employees notified Boston Police, who soon spotted her in Maverick Square carrying what appeared to be court records. Officers brought her back to the courthouse, where court officers took custody of the paperwork and police placed her under arrest. During a search following that arrest, officers recovered a plastic bag containing an off-white rock-like substance believed to be crack cocaine.
So her criminal file will soon have even more documents in it. The DA's office reports she was arraigned on charges of larceny and possession of a Class B substance; her bail was set at $5,000.
Innocent, etc.
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While amuisng
shouldn't public documents be free of charge?
They're free to look at
You only have to pay for copies, which makes sense, even if sometimes the fees seem a bit outrageous. No clue what Boston courts charge, but I had to pay $1 a page for copies of records out of Taunton District Court earlier this year - thanks to a deadbeat down there who was keeping us from refinancing our house because one credit agency decided she was my wife, even though she has a different middle initial and social-security number than my actual wife.
Which brings up another issue having nothing to do with our friend from Revere: Why is it that Massachusetts, of all places, can't get its court records online, like the federal courts and many other states (Colorado, even)? To get copies of those court records (so I could prove to our bank that, no, my wife had never lived in Taunton, let alone defaulted on a loan there), I had to drive all the way to Taunton. Granted, it was an easy 60 miles or so roundtrip, not many people are heading to Taunton in the middle of the day, but seems ridiculous.
So 30 pages
$30?
That seems to be unfair, and that's what I'm getting at. I have no issues for people paying the physical cost of copies, but a buck a page for public documents seems excessive, and done only to discourage people from bothering.
As for online, you're damn right. Then again we also seem to have a problem with our politicos emails going "missing" whenever they change office or some sort of "issue" arises. It happened to both the previous Governor and our very own Mayor.
/End Zak Rant
David Marburger. Access With Attitude.
See also
http://www.sec.state.ma.us/arc/arcrmu/rmuidx.htm
and via our friends in Ohio...
David Marburger
Access With Attitude
http://books.google.com/books?id=UnGvxUaSXhYC&prin...
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