(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blogsite) In a reversal of her earlier decision, the state's Public Records Supervisor has issued a final determination that the state Disabled Persons Protection Commission can keep investigative reports … [Read more...]
DDS won’t give out information on reported death
(Cross-posted from the COFAR blog) Late last month, we received a report that a healthy, 55-year-old man had been transferred from his home at the Templeton Developmental Center and subsequently died four days later at a community-based … [Read more...]
Update: We just received some cost records from DDS…but
As we suspected would be the case, the documents indicate that many important costs of community-based care were left out of the administration’s analysis. And, as we’ll explain below, at least part of the analysis is based on … [Read more...]
We’re still waiting for the administration’s cost records
Lest you think our request was overly broad, we offered last month to narrow it to a request for documents primarily supporting a specific projection in the administration's analysis that it would cost $150,000 per … [Read more...]
We’ve resubmitted our Public Records Request
Last week, the Division of Capital Asset Management (DCAM) sought bids for the Wrentham renovations. DCAM is now projecting that the project will cost $1.8 million -- some $200,000 higher than initially projected. Although the … [Read more...]
Galvin’s office says Wrentham records can be kept secret
D'Alusio told me that his understanding was that DCAM and the Department of Developmental Services were both on track to renovate two buildings at Wrentham and have them ready to accept as many as 60 Fernald residents by … [Read more...]
Our public records quest (Part 2)
The case I'm writing about now goes back to February, when I asked DCAM for records pertaining to the procurement of state contracts to lease community-based residential homes to the Department of Developmental Services. … [Read more...]