Citizen Tool Kit

Requesting public records

• How to use the Federal Freedom of Information Act
• NFOIC: Massachusetts Freedom of Information and Open Government Resources
• Massachusetts Public Records Division
• Making a request under the Massachusetts Public Records Law
• Worcester Indymedia tips on Massachusetts information requests

Media Resources

• Huge contact list at Worcester Activist

• the green media tool shed

Local government

Contact

• You can write any Worcester City Councilor at City Hall Room 112, 455 Main Street, Worcester, MA 01608. You can call the City Council at 508.799.1049.
• City Council homepage
• You can write City Manager Michael O'Brien at City Hall Room 309, 455 Main Street, Worcester, MA 01608. You can call the City Manager at 508.799.1175. You can e-mail the City Manager at CityManager@ci.worcester.ma.us.

State and national government

Contact

• Senator Edward Kennedy, 317 Russell Bldg, Third Floor, Washington DC 20510, 202.224.4543.
  OpenCongress page

• Senator John Kerry, 304 Russell Bldg, Third Floor, Washington DC 20510, 202.224.2742.
  OpenCongress page

• Representative James McGovern
  OpenCongress page