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Request Public Records from the OSA
Contacts
OSA Records Access Officer Melissa McGavin, Assistant General Counsel
OSA Secondary Records Access Officer Michael Leung-Tat, General Counsel
The Details of Request Public Records from the OSA
How to request Request Public Records from the OSA
This form is the best way to submit your public records requests to our office. Using this form helps you make the most informed request for records and helps us to provide the quickest and most accurate response to your request.
We encourage you to request public records using the online form above. This form helps you make the most informed request for records and helps us to provide the quickest and most accurate response to your request. However, we do accept oral requests via phone. Please note, you cannot appeal any response to an oral request to the Supervisor of Records.
Phone requests should be made at: (617) 727-6200, Extension 5602
We encourage you to request public records using the online form above. This form helps you make the most informed request for records and helps us to provide the quickest and most accurate response to your request. However, we do accept written requests via mail.
Written requests should be made to:
Judith Bromley
Office of the State Auditor, Diana DiZoglio
McCormack Building
One Ashburton Place, Room 1819
Boston, MA 02108
We encourage you to request public records using the online form above. This form helps you make the most informed request for records and helps us to provide the quickest and most accurate response to your request. However, we do accept requests in person. Requests can be made at:
Office of the State Auditor, Diana DiZoglio
McCormack Building
One Ashburton Place, Room 1819
Boston, MA 02108
More info for Request Public Records from the OSA
The OSA is committed to transparency in government.
These guidelines are intended to enable you to make an informed request to obtain public records in our office’s possession.
We strongly encourage members of the public to make records requests in writing (using the form available on this page) because doing so helps ensure that our Records Access Officers have a thorough understanding of the documents which you seek. You should be as specific as possible (including relevant date ranges and any other information that may help use to identify records) when describing the records you seek.
Please note that we can only address public records requests under the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ Public Records Law and not the federal government’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). FOIA applies to the federal government and public records that it maintains and does not apply to agencies of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and records that they maintain.
Upon receipt of any request for public records, our Records Access Officer will review the request and advise you of any estimated and/or actual cost to comply with the request. Once we receive payment for the request, we will locate and consolidate the requested records and provide copies of them or an opportunity to view them.
We may withhold public records from disclosure in accordance with the Public Records Law but will notify you, in writing, of our decision to do so.
Records requests must be for items that already exist in writing or other format. We are not required to create new records in response to public records requests. Records that we maintain in the course of our business include:
- Audit Reports
- Reports:
- Bureau of Special Investigations Quarterly Reports
- Local Mandate Determinations
- Municipal Impact Studies
- Privatization Reports
- Peer Review Reports
- Special Reports
- OSA Strategic Plan
- Open Meeting Law Notices / Public Notices
- Legislation (which the Auditor authored)
- Newsletters
- Press Releases
- Office of the State Auditor Budget
- Office of the State Auditor Contracts
If you make a request for records in writing, and receive an unfavorable response, you can file an appeal with the Supervisor of Public Records for the Secretary of the Commonwealth or seek judicial review in the Suffolk Superior Court.