{"id":393,"date":"2024-03-20T09:45:44","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T13:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/massachusetts\/press-releases\/my-personal-life-is-my-personal-life-healey-defends-decision-not-to-disclose-details-of-four-day-trip\/"},"modified":"2024-03-20T09:45:44","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T13:45:44","slug":"my-personal-life-is-my-personal-life-healey-defends-decision-not-to-disclose-details-of-four-day-trip","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/massachusetts\/press\/my-personal-life-is-my-personal-life-healey-defends-decision-not-to-disclose-details-of-four-day-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018My personal life is my personal life.\u2019 Healey defends decision not to disclose details of four-day trip."},"template":"","class_list":["post-393","press","type-press","status-publish","hentry","press_type-news-clip"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"","featured_image":"","press_type":155,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":10263}"],"related_issues":[92,103,105,464],"related_work":false,"location":24},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"This article <\/span>originally appeared<\/span><\/a> in the Boston Globe on March 18, 2024 and was written by Matt Stout. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nBelow is Common Cause Massachusetts executive director Geoff Foster's comment on Governor Maura Healey's decision to not disclose her whereabouts last month when she took a four-day trip out of state.<\/span>\r\n

The debate around Healey\u2019s actions highlights a wider issue, said Geoff Foster, executive director of the good government group, Common Cause Massachusetts: All three branches \u2014 the\u00a0governor\u2019s office<\/a>, the Legislature, and the judiciary \u2014 enjoy a blanket exemption from the state\u2019s public records law. Massachusetts, in fact, is the only state where that\u2019s the case.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cIt\u2019s important that we balance the reality that threats of political violence are at an all-time high, but so too is public distrust in government,\u201d Foster wrote in an email. \u201cIt\u2019s past time that we take another look at ways to strengthen the public records law which already includes reasonable exclusions related to policy development and personal privacy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n\u00a0<\/span>To read the full article, <\/span>click here<\/span><\/a>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n\u00a0<\/span>"}}]},"yoast_head":"\n\u2018My personal life is my personal life.\u2019 Healey defends decision not to disclose details of four-day trip. - Common Cause Massachusetts<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/massachusetts\/press-releases\/my-personal-life-is-my-personal-life-healey-defends-decision-not-to-disclose-details-of-four-day-trip\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u2018My personal life is my personal life.\u2019 Healey defends decision not to disclose details of four-day trip.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/massachusetts\/press\/my-personal-life-is-my-personal-life-healey-defends-decision-not-to-disclose-details-of-four-day-trip\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Common Cause Massachusetts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/massachusetts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/common-cause-share-image.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/massachusetts\/press-releases\/my-personal-life-is-my-personal-life-healey-defends-decision-not-to-disclose-details-of-four-day-trip\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/massachusetts\/press-releases\/my-personal-life-is-my-personal-life-healey-defends-decision-not-to-disclose-details-of-four-day-trip\/\",\"name\":\"\u2018My personal life is my personal life.\u2019 Healey defends decision not to disclose details of four-day trip. - 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