Latest revision as of 17:36, 26 January 2025

Schedule

Time	Session	Speaker
9:00am-10:00am	Setup
10:00am-10:15am	Opening Address
10:15am-11:00am	How to navigate your local government	Steve Revilak
11:00am-noon	Protect your privacy
noon-12:30pm	Lunch
12:30pm – 1:30pm	Planning for after January 20th
1:30pm – 2:30pm	How to help make Massachusetts more transparent	Maya Shaffer
2:30pm – 3:30pm	Running for local office
3:30pm – 4:00pm	Closing Address
4:00pm – 4:00pm	Clean up

The hunting/gathering of PII. - real privacy law

Look at the transparency laws as they are the weakest or almost weakest

Tie to state police overtime scandal
- IA knew of a trooper doing overtime, gave slap on the wrist
State police drug lab
Need informed voters they don't have the receipts about what gov. is doing
Democracy doesn't function without transparency.

Focus on pharma drug prices, reduce marketing and preying on people

State gov, esp. legislature are impenetrable

Not subject to open meeting law
Votes are secret, but should be public records
state records revamp in 2016 required legislature to have a committee to see how the legislature could be more public. It was to report back in a year, but never met first year so there was no report. Legislature extended the deadline by a year. The committee met a few times, but never issued a report.
- look at 2016 law for name of committee

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 = Notes =
+== Planning Discussion ==
+=== Where to focus? ===
+The hunting/gathering of PII. - real privacy law
+* Opt-in
+* Reach out to seniors
+* Cost of entry - need hours to read the fine print, you don't have
+* The good and bad of technology documentary - on PII, google and others
+Look at the transparency laws as they are the weakest or almost weakest
+* Tie to state police overtime scandal
+** IA knew of a trooper doing overtime, gave slap on the wrist
+* State police drug lab
+* Need informed voters they don't have the receipts about what gov. is doing
+* Democracy doesn't function without transparency.
+Focus on pharma drug prices, reduce marketing and preying on people
+* Shkreli awards - fun tongue and check way to go after people
+* We pay for them, but
+* Same with science papers
+State gov, esp. legislature are impenetrable
+* Not subject to open meeting law
+* Votes are secret, but should be public records
+* state records revamp in 2016 required legislature to have a committee to see how the legislature could be more public. It was to report back in a year, but never met first year so there was no report. Legislature extended the deadline by a year. The committee met a few times, but never issued a report.
+** look at 2016 law for name of committee
 = Attending =