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TOWN CRIER, INC. v. CHIEF OF POLICE OF WESTON

361 Mass. 682 (1972)

282 N.E.2d 379

TOWN CRIER, INC. & another vs. CHIEF OF POLICE OF WESTON.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

April 27, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard W. Renehan (Ira C. Lupu with him) for the petitioners.

Florence E. Freeman, Town Counsel, for the respondent.

John B. Jenney & Francis E. Jenney, for the Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Association, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: TAURO, C.J., CUTTER, SPIEGEL, REARDON, & HENNESSEY, JJ.

TAURO, C.J.

The petitioners seek a writ of mandamus ordering the respondent chief of police and custodian of police records in the town of Weston to make available for their examination an arrest register and daily log maintained by the Weston police department. The petitioners are Town Crier, Inc., a corporation publishing a weekly newspaper with circulation in Weston, and Thomas F. Sleeper, the editor of the newspaper. The case has been reported without decision...

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