Mayor Thomas M. Menino used classic stall tactics and flouted public records laws in the release of e-mails improperly deleted by his top lieutenant, making various payment demands and dumping the public records to reporters after darkness fell outside a locked-up City Hall.
The saga of Menino aide Michael Kineavy’s e-mail trash bin could serve as a case study in government’s heavy-handed control of records that any citizen is, under the law, entitled to request and review, experts said.
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Boston Mayor Menino thumbs nose at public records laws
The Boston Herald reports: