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KingCast invites the New York Times: Look deeper into Mass DOC CORI violation and Joanna Marinova v. Jessica Van Sack, Boston Herald and Channel 7.

By Christopher King

Mass_DOC_leaked_CORI_info Oh, yah, I noted in this post that the New York Times was reading up on the 29 April 2009 email between Joanna Marinova and Deval Patrick cabinet member Mary Beth Heffernan. Read this post for the entire background on the failed attempts at prison reform in Mass. It's an important email because that email, acknowledging the fact that Marinova was going to be doing extensive work on prison reform, immediately preceded the Darrell Jones CORI information leak that was stretched into a kind of sexual hijinx by the Herald & Channel 7.

Now I've heard State Rep. Gloria Fox was out at a recent meeting and acting all gun-shy about the situation, but let me tell you Ms. Fox, there is a New Day coming in Boston politics. You don't have to kowtow to anybody about your actions or the actions of Ms. Marinova because you did NOTHING WRONG, and I know you will say that if you are deposed.

Meanwhile, let me tell the New York Times that the unanswered Public Information request in this case is crucial because I know for fact that the DOC has leaked other CORI information to people at City Hall. That's why they won't respond to me (they get 10 days allotted by MGL 66 § 10 and it's been over a month now and I've contacted Martha Coakley's Office about it too) but there's going to be some Michael Moore-style sit-in videos this week, with subsequent litigation coming if they don't issue a response. Maybe the DOC convinces the Herald and Channel 7 insurance carriers to settle out before the Subpoenas and the Depositions Depositions start flying; can't let the World know who's leaking information now can they?

They wonder why people can't trust the government when all we do is ask a simple question and get ignored by the people who are allegedly in charge of maintaining Law and Order.

Nice. Well I think it's nice, I don't know what Herald Attorneys Brown, Rudnick et al. think about it, you'll have to ask them, and indeed that will be the first call I make once the suit is filed, to ask them for comment. They've had plenty of time to think about it as they've been following my blogs and this specific situation for more than a month now, read the comments :)

Full post as published by Chris King's 1st Amendment Page on February 21, 2010 (boomark / email).