Kimberley Keyes Quoted in Watertown TAB and Press Editorial

An editorial in the Watertown TAB & Press has called on Watertown Town Manager Michael Driscoll to make public the names of all applicants to town boards. In Massachusetts, all government records are considered public unless they fall under certain narrow exemptions. Citing a 2005 case involving the Cape Cod Times, Prince Lobel attorney Kimberley Keyes stated that the public records law allows the exemption “only in cases where disclosure would publicize ‘intimate details’ of ‘a highly personal nature.’ Names and addresses of adults are not ‘intimate details’ of a ‘highly personal nature.’”

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