For public records requests, please contact CACPS Records Access Officer:
Thabiti Brown, Head of School, Records Access Officer 637 Washington Street Dorchester, MA 02124 617-287-0700 [email protected]
The duties of the Records Access Officer are established by statute and include:
Coordinating Codman Academy Charter Public School’s response to public records requests;
Assisting individuals who seek records to identify the records sought;
Assisting the custodian of records to preserve public records in accordance with the law;
Preparing, posting online and periodically updating guidelines to enable the public to make informed public records requests; and
Documenting, in compliance with M.G.L c. 66, § 6A(e), specific information about each request made for public records.
Please contact the Records Access Officer in writing regarding public records requests for documents pursuant to A Guide to the Massachusetts Public Records Law (https://www.sec.state.ma.us/pre/prepdf/guide.pdf) as published by William Francis Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Barring an exception, records will generally be provided in electronic format within 10 business days. In the case where a response will take longer than 10 business days, the Records Access Officer will contact the requestor with an explanation for the delay, a good faith estimate of any fees that may be charged for the production of the records, and a reasonable time frame for when the records will be provided, which generally will not exceed 25 business days from the initial request. For questions or more information, please feel free to contact Dawn Leaness.
The following is a non-exhaustive list of categories of documents maintained by Codman Academy Charter Public School:
