General Counsel Department of Veterans Services 600 Washington Street, 7th Floor Boston, MA 02111 Dear Attorney Deacon: I have received the petition of Michael Damiano, of the Boston Globe, appealing the response of the Department of Veterans Services (Department/DVS) to a request for public records. G. L. c. 66, 10A; see also 950 C.M.R. 32.08(1). On January 18, 2023, Mr.

Murray Supervisor of Records May 11, 2020 SPR20/0695 Stuart Ivimey General Counsel Executive Office of Health and Human Services Department of Veterans Services 600 Washington Street, 7th Floor Boston, MA 02111 Dear Attorney Ivimey: I have received the petition of Hanna Krueger appealing the response of the Department of Veterans Services (Department) to a request for public records. G. L. c. 66, 10A; see also 950 C.M.R. 32.08(1).

General Counsel Department of Veterans Services 600 Washington Street, 7th Floor Boston, MA 02111 Dear Attorney Ivimey: I have received the petition of Dusty Christensen of the Daily Hampshire Gazette appealing the response of the Department of Veterans Services (Department) to a request for public records. G. L. c. 66, 10A; see also 950 C.M.R. 32.08(1). Specifically, on April 13, 2020, Mr.

General Counsel Department of Veterans Services 600 Washington Street, 7th Floor Boston, MA 02111 Dear Attorney Ivimey: I have received the petition of Dusty Christensen of the Daily Hampshire Gazette appealing the response of the Department of Veterans Services (Department) to a request for public records. G. L. c. 66, 10A; see also 950 C.M.R. 32.08(1). Specifically, on April 13, 2020, Mr.

Murray Supervisor of Records June 3, 2020 SPR20/0811 Stuart Ivimey General Counsel Executive Office of Health and Human Services Department of Veterans Services 600 Washington Street, 7th Floor Boston, MA 02111 Dear Attorney Ivimey: I have received the petition of Hanna Krueger appealing the response of the Department of Veterans Services (Department) to a request for public records. G. L. c. 66, 10A; see also 950 C.M.R. 32.08(1).

General Counsel Department of Veterans Services 600 Washington Street, 7th Floor Boston, MA 02111 Dear Attorney Ivimey: I have received the petition of Colman Herman appealing the response of the Department of Veterans Services (Department/DVS) to a request for public records. G. L. c. 66, 10A; see also 950 C.M.R. 32.08(1). Specifically, on April 10, 2020, Mr.

Murray Supervisor of Records July 14, 2020 SPR20/1033 Stuart Ivimey General Counsel Department of Veterans Services 600 Washington Street, 7th Floor Boston, MA 02111 Dear Attorney Ivimey: I have received the petition of Matthew Szafranski appealing the response of the Department of Veterans Services (the Department) to a request for public records. G. L. c. 66, 10A; see also 950 C.M.R. 32.08(1). Specifically, Mr.

General Counsel Department of Veteran Services 600 Washington Street, 7th Floor Boston, MA 02111 Dear Attorney Deacon: I have received the petition of Jillian Bertrand, Esq., of Pyle Rome Ehrenberg PC, appealing the response of the Department of Veteran Services (Department) to a request for public records. G. L. c. 66, 10A; see also 950 C.M.R. 32.08(1).

In her June response the Department's General Counsel Margret Cooke stated, "[i]n the case of the Chelsea Soldiers Home Domiciliary, staff at the state Department of Veterans Services have confirmed that the federal Department of Veterans Affairs requires the Domiciliary to comply with the federal Department of Veterans Affairs regulations, including sanitary regulations, and regularly conducts surveys of the Massachusetts Soldiers Home in Chelsea

O'Farrell requested "any and all documents and related correspondence including any and all replies and responses received by your office and/or any office of the City of Fitchburg and/or any unit, section of the department of Veterans' Services relying on M.G.L. c. 66." Subsequent to the intervention by a staff member of the Public .Records Division, I learned the City provided Mr.