Kimberley Keyes Quoted in Watertown TAB & Press

The town of Watertown (MA) has denied a public records request by the TAB & Press for the names of the residents who applied to the library reuse committee.  According to a recent article in the TAB & Press, the town’s attorney states that the town is withholding the information — specifically the names of the candidates who were not appointed to the committee — since “unsuccessful candidates are, in his opinion, not subject to any public process. To release the records would violate the privacy of those individuals who were not nominated to the committee,” he argued.

Names and addresses of adults are not “intimate details” of a “highly personal nature,” according to a 2005 case involving the Cape Cod Times, said Kimberley Keyes, a media attorney with Prince Lobel in Boston.

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