· 12/16/1987
Brogan v. School Committee of Westport
Citations
- 516 N.E.2d 159
- 401 Mass. 306
How courts have described this case
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- \dates and generic classifications\ of employee's absences not protected under G.L. c. 4, § 7, Twenty-sixth (c)
- names of committee's employees, and the dates and generic classifications of their absences, held subject to public records request
- disclosure of absentee records of individual teachers held valid where records requested did not contain information of a personal nature such as medical reason for absence or details of family emergency
- names and absentee records of school committee employees along with dates and generic classification, i.e., “sick day,” “personal day,” are public records subject to mandatory disclosure
- \dates and generic classifications\ of employee's absences not protected from public disclosure
- “Information as to a named individual’s medical condition inherently is ‘of a personal nature’ in a way that the fact that a named teacher took a ‘sick day’ or a ‘personal day’ on a certain date is not”
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Judges: Hennessey, Wilkins, Liacos, Nolan, Lynch
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