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...haven't seen any mechanics yet at the American Idol fifth-season auditions. But there was a dental assistant. And a deputy sheriff. Twinsseveral sets. A husky-voiced Ukrainian chanteuse desperate for a performers' visa. The inventor of the Cosmic Coaster, a floating beverage holder. ("Center it!" he coached judge Paula Abdul as she set her glass teetering on the contraption.) A white guy who said he flunked the audition because America is "prejudiced and racist." And "Flawless," a wispy-bearded dancer of limited talent who appeared to be a perfect candidate for the job of Britney Spears' eventual third...
Before Katrina pounded New Orleans last summer, that city's longstanding reputation for graft was reinforced by Operation Wrinkled Robe, which uncovered a bribery scheme initiated by a bail-bonds company at a local courthouse. In addition to various officials in the Jefferson Parish sheriff's office, two state judges were convicted for their roles in helping steer business (i.e., prisoners) to the firm. In San Diego local government has been effectively frozen--and a city-council member has been convicted (although he remains free on appeal)--as a result of a scandal in which local officials accepted cash bribes...
...primary purpose of G.L. c. 66, § 10, is to give the public broad access to government documents. See Cape Cod Times v. Sheriff of Barnstable County, 443 Mass. 587, 592 (2005); General Elec. Co. v. Department of Envtl. Protection, 429 Mass. 798, 802 (1999); Globe Newspaper Co. v. Boston Retirement Bd., 388 Mass. 427, 436 (1983). To that end, disclosure is favored by a "presumption that the record sought is public." G.L. c. 66, § 10 (c ). See Bougas v. Chief of Police of Lexington, 371 Mass. 59, 61 (1976) (documents presumed to be public records when possessed...
...Crimson's contention that documents in the custody of the HUPD have become "public records" because some HUPD officers have been appointed deputy sheriffs in Middlesex and Suffolk counties, thereby conferring on them the status of public employees, is equally unavailing. Pursuant to G.L. c. 37, § 3, a sheriff is vested with the discretion to appoint deputies who have general law enforcement powers and the right to serve process. See G.L. c. 37, §§ 11, 12. See also Tedeschi v. Reardon, 5 F.Supp.2d 40, 42 n. 3 (D.Mass.1998); Sheriff of Middlesex County v. International...
...Crimson's efforts to establish a correlation between a "special [S]tate employee" or "special county employee" for purposes of the Massachusetts conflict of interest statute, G.L. c. 268A, § 1, and an HUPD officer who has been appointed as a "special State police officer" or a deputy sheriff, is unpersuasive. "General Laws c. 268A regulates the conduct of State, county, and municipal employees relating to the performance of their official duties." Edgartown v. State Ethics Comm'n, 391 Mass. 83, 84 (1984). It was "enacted as part of 'comprehensive legislation ... [to] strike at corruption in public office, inequality...