Request Submitted To: Various Commonwealth Police Departments
Category: Law Enforcement
Year Filed: 2013
Background
The purpose of this request was to seek records from the SWAT and Special Tactical Operations (“STOP”) teams of various Commonwealth police departments. Specifically, we asked for deployment history, weapons access, training, mutual aid agreements, budgets, and audits.
The ACLU of Massachusetts filed a lawsuit against NEMLEC, a regional SWAT team, after the organization claimed it was private and therefore wasn’t subject to the state’s public records law. In June 2015 NEMLEC settled with the ACLU, acknowledging that it is subject to the records law. The lawsuit unearthed a treasure trove of documents.
- ACLU Request to Worcester County Sheriff’s Office
- ACLU Request to Stockbridge Police Department
- ACLU Request to Dennis Police Department
- ACLU Request to Central Massachusetts Law Enforcement Council
- ACLU Request to Middlesex County Sheriff
- ACLU Request to State Police Tactical Operations Team
- ACLU Request to Worcester County Sheriff
- ACLU Request to Chief Whalen Dennis Police
- ACLU Follow up to Fitchburg
- ACLU Second Request to Dennis Police Department
- ACLU Request to Martha’s Vineyard Law Enforcement Council Inc.
- ACLU Request to METROLEC
- ACLU Request to Middlesex County Sheriff
- ACLU Request to MSP
- ACLU Request to NEMLEC
- ACLU follow up with Dennis PD
- ACLU Request to Worcester County Sheriff