The Commonwealth of Massachusetts William Francis Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth Public Records Division Manza Arthur Supervisor of Records November 25, 2024 SPR24/3181 Sergeant Mark Panagiotakos Lawrence Police Department Records Division 90 Lowell Street Lawrence, MA 01840 Dear Sergeant Panagiotakos: I have received the petition of Sara Plansky appealing the nonresponse of the Lawrence Police Department (Department) to a request for public

See Town of Belchertown, 27 MLC 73 (2000); City of Lawrence, 27 MLC 57 (2000); Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 27 MLC 87, 89 (2000).

City of Lawrence, 18 MCSR 22, 23 (2005) citing Doris v. Police Commissioner of Boston, 374 Mass. at 445 (1978). HRDs Verification of Applicants Residence Preference form, states, in part, [p]ursuant to G.L. Chapter 31, Section 58 [a job applicant] [must] [ ] maintain residence in the Appointing Authoritys community for a full year preceding the date of the examination. Residence means the principal place of domicile of the applicant.

See City of Lawrence and Lawrence Water Treatment Operators Association, 25 MLC 1 (1998). There are other civilians who also work at all three public safety departments. The Union is merely trying to use this modification to job duties to obtain that which it could not obtain through bargaining. The DLR is reticent to allow modifications and should not do so in this instance.

City of Lawrence, 23 MLC 213, 215, MUP-9876 (March 31, 1997). In shared work cases, the Board looks to the pattern and practice of allocating the disputed work. City of Boston, 6 MLC 1117, 1126, MUP-2863 (June 4, 1979). In such circumstances, a union must prove that an identifiable pattern existed regarding the assignment of the work and that the employer has altered that pattern without first bargaining with the union. Id. at 1126.

City of Lawrence, 18 MCSR 22 (2005). The existence of strong ties to a community and/or the intention to move there are not necessarily sufficient to establish a person to have resided in a community in which they do not then actively live full-time. See, e.g., French v. Town of Plainville, 28 MCSR 269 (2015); Gould v. City of Boston, 27 MCSR 353 (2014), and cases cited.

To be eligible for this benefit, the employee must demonstrate on the appropriate documents that he or she is covered by a group or non-group health insurance plan financed without any participation by the Lawrence School Committee or the City of Lawrence.

Murray Supervisor of Records April 7, 2021 SPR21/0724 Eugene Scanlon Lawrence Police Department Records Division 90 Lowell Street Lawrence, MA 01840 Dear Officer Scanlon: I have received the petition of Jeremiah Torres appealing the nonresponse of the Lawrence Police Department (Department) to his request for public records. G. L. c. 66, 10A; see also 950 C.M.R. 32.08(1). Mr. Torres requested specific records relating to Commonwealth V.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts William Francis Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth Public Records Division Manza Arthur Supervisor of Records October 14, 2022 SPR22/2216 Officer Mark Panagiotakos Records Access Officer Lawrence Police Department 90 Lowell Street Lawrence, MA 01840 Dear Officer Panagiotakos: I have received the petition of Severo Figueroa appealing the response of the Lawrence Police Department (Department) to a request for public

Murray Supervisor of Records December 21, 2017 SPR17/1723 Amanda Wall Director of Support Services Lawrence Police Department 90 Lowell Street Lawrence, MA O1840 Dear Ms. Wall: I have received the petition of Attorney Murat Erkan appealing the nonresponse of the Lawrence Police Department (Department) to a request for public records. G. L. c. 66, lOA; see also 950 C.M.R. 32.08(1).