From: Larry Kelley <amherstac@aol.com<mailto:amherstac@aol.

com>>
Date: Thursday, October 16, 2014 at 8:25 AM
To: Nancy Buffone <buffone@umass.edu<mailto:buffone@umass.edu>>,
John Kennedy
<jkennedy@admin.umass.edu<mailto:jkennedy@admin.umass.edu>>
Subject: Meetings of the informant review committee
Are the meetings of the 11 member committee/group/task force (or
whatever it's called) to study UMPD use of student informants
open public meetings? I of course wish to cover them.
Larry
(Diane Curtis has not responded yet to my question but maybe she
doesn't check
her Twitter Direct Messages often enough)
From: Nancy Buffone <buffone@umass.edu>
To: Larry Kelley <amherstac@aol.com>
Cc: John Kennedy <jkennedy@admin.umass.edu>
Sent: Thu, Oct 16, 2014 8:55 am
Subject: Re: Meetings of the informant review committee
Larry -
No, the meetings are not open.
Thank you,
Nancy
--
Nancy Buffone
Executive Director
External Relations and University Events
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From: Larry Kelley <amherstac@aol.com>
To: openmeeting <openmeeting@state.ma.us>
Sent: Thu, Oct 16, 2014 9:36 am
Subject: Re: Open Meeting complaint Amherst and UMass (There they go again)
Dear Mr. Sclarsic,
I wish to file a complaint (in advance) for not being allowed to cover meetings which I firmly believe
should be Open Meetings and I would like the Attorney General's office to determine if indeed these
meeting should be subject to the Open Meeting Law.
UMass Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy, in response to a highly publicized story about a drug addict who
died via heroin overdose (front page of the Boston Sunday Globe) who was also either an "informant" or
"witness" for UMass Police Department, appointed an 11-member committee to determine if use of
student "informants" by UMPD should continue.
As almost all of the appointed individuals are state employees, and the meetings presumably will take
place on state property, and since the outcome of this process is of great public interest, I strongly feel
these deliberations should take place in the clear light of day.
Larry Kelley