OpenCommonwealth
Dedicated to opening up government transparency in Massachusetts
OpenCommonwealth.org is a free, open and public journalistic community organization designed specifically to provide and empower citizen oversight of governmental operations and activities, help citizens understand how, why and where taxpayer dollars are expended, and to investigate, gather and report the facts in the online publications found on the webpages and social media accounts of OpenCommonwealth.org. OpenCommonwealth.org is a free service, is staffed only by volunteers, and all costs and expenses are borne by its creators. No person has ever paid OpenCommonwealth.org any monies, or any in-kind contributions for its reporting, or access to any of its files. It is the structural intent of OpenCommonwealth.org to maintain and persist as an absolutely free service to the entire public. Since its inception, OpenCommonwealth.org has been viewed by over 130,000 visitors between the website and social media, and has had over 20,000 external visitors view and/or download records from our free and publicly available records repository. Currently OpenCommonwealth.org has over a 1.5 Terabytes of publicly available content published.
09/04/2026
09/03/2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EPgWraAA3U
This is worth a watching!!!
This Massachusetts Contractor Fought the State for 7 Years. Here’s Why. Massachusetts contractor Rick Magiosce joins me to explain his year...
08/06/2026
Looks like the Courts are going to be a necessary part of the solution…
https://www.masslive.com/news/2026/08/mass-judge-finds-state-police-engaged-in-pattern-of-records-law-violations.html?fbclid=IwdGRjcAThVmFwZG9mBWZkaWQWUL-ZbgZTvEO3IfK2JuyvWFlMzJuTbmV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkCjY2Mjg1NjgzNzkAAR5pKtrJBUYZktmgP2w2dwa6JqhUzZNojGWSf0Xm4hzkS3D41Q # # &utm_campaign=mrf-facebook-masslive&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&mrfcid=202608036a70fc045b1dda56d215dd91
Mass. judge finds State Police engaged in pattern of records law violations A Suffolk Superior Court judge found Massachusetts State Police engage in a “pervasive” pattern of violating public records law. The agency has been ordered to develop proposed reforms to improve records-request responses.
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