City’s new records chief once OK’d sealing names of police facing OUI charges
The state’s former public records gatekeeper, tapped Thursday for a similar job with the city of Boston, had previously ruled the city could withhold names of police officers charged with drunken driving and race and gender information of city workers.
Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced Thursday that he had selected Shawn Williams as the city’s first director of public records, saying the appointment builds on the city’s “commitment to transparency and good governance.”
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