by Dan Ring
dring at repub.com
"We made a mistake, a simple mistake," he said.

More than 30 years after passage of the law, that's an all-too-common refrain among municipal leaders.

In one of the most egrigious cases, the Boston City Council was fined $11,000 in 2006 by a Superior Court judge for repeated violations of the law spanning about two years.

Public information of city government isn't available for people pursuing their civic interests. An example of an appeal...

By John Markoff
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/27/business/library.php

The Boston Public Library is also interested in scanning local Boston and Massachusetts documents and is in the process of creating its own digital archive.

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