Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 41 § 98F

Current through Chapter 223 of the 2024 Legislative Session

Section 41:98F - Daily logs; public records; confidentiality

Each police department and each college or university to which officers have been appointed pursuant to section 63 of chapter 22C shall make, keep and maintain a daily log, written in a form that can be easily understood, recording, in chronological order, all responses to valid complaints received, crimes reported, the names, addresses of persons arrested and the charges against such persons arrested. All entries in said daily logs shall, unless otherwise provided in law, be public records available without charge to the public during regular business hours and at all other reasonable times; provided, however, that the following entries shall be kept in a separate log and shall not be a public record nor shall such entry be disclosed to the public, or any individual not specified in section 97D:

(i) any entry in a log which pertains to a handicapped individual who is physically or mentally incapacitated to the degree that said person is confined to a wheelchair or is bedridden or requires the use of a device designed to provide said person with mobility,

(ii) any information concerning responses to reports of domestic violence, rape or sexual assault,

(iii) any entry concerning the arrest of a person for assault, assault and battery or violation of a protective order where the victim is a family or household member, as defined in section 1 of chapter 209A, or

(iv) any entry concerning the arrest of a person who has not yet reached 18 years of age.

Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 41, § 98F

Amended by Acts 2018 , c. 69, §§  25, 26 eff. 12/31/2018.

Amended by Acts 2014 , c. 260, § 8, eff. 8/8/2014.