Welcome to the Public Access Handbook

This online guide features three main sections of access to public information:

• Public Meetings
• Police records and court information
• Public records

This information is made possible by the collective works of long-time journalist and contributor to the Mass. Press Association Jack Authelet. Jack's efforts over several decades have helped ensure the public and the press representing it have not been denied their right to fairly report on that activity of local and state government.