The Report should stand on its own merit with no attachments. To ensure that important information from letters, reports, evaluations and the like, is read and considered by the trial judge, any such important information should be included in the body of the Report and properly attributed. Letters, reports and evaluations may not added in part or in whole as an attachment to, or photocopied, scanned or copied and pasted into, the Report. Court investigators should not reproduce clinical reports in part or in whole but should extract pertinent quotes and present the facts. See Adoption of Astrid, 45 Mass. App. Ct. 538, 546 (1998).
The Juvenile Court's guidelines for court investigation reports.