Request for Comment — Suffolk Superior Court docket No. 2684

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

September 16, 2026 Florida

Media contact admin@exposureisjustice.org

CC: Dr. Jessica Lynn Campbell, Ph.D.

Chief Information Officer (CIO)

jessica@exposureisjustice.org

Justice Is Exposure Closes Massachusetts Child

Welfare Records Investigation

The record is closed after state offices failed to produce the requested 2026 decision history

FLORIDA, September 16, 2026 - Justice Is Exposure Media, LLC has closed its Phase One investigation into the documentary history behind Massachusetts Chapter 179 of the Acts of 2026, An Act Enhancing Child Welfare Protections. The investigation is over. Justice Is Exposure will grant no additional waiting period and will not hold its reporting open for a post-closure explanation.

For more than a month, Justice Is Exposure gave the Office of the Child Advocate, the Executive Office of Health and Human Services, the Department of Children and Families, the Governor's Office, and the Attorney General's Office separate opportunities to produce the records each office maintained. OCA responded substantively, identified public collections and other custodians, supplied 12 individual records, and included both John Williams and Chief Information Officer Dr. Jessica Lynn Campbell in its response.

The Record at Closure The Attorney General's September 15 enclosure contained 77 pages. Sixty-five pages, approximately 84 percent, were two reports issued in 2019. The remaining identifiable substantive material was dated 2025.

Apart from the three-page cover response, the enclosure contained no substantive document dated 2026. The older records are relevant because they show that concerns involving children in foster care were documented years before Chapter 179. They do not provide the requested 2026 decision history. The production does not establish who made the material decisions, when the decisions were made, which earlier recommendations were acted upon, or why enactment occurred when it did.

Justice Is Exposure will not keep this investigation open while any office assembles a later narrative, graphic, chronology, or explanation. Any material created after closure will be identified by its actual creation date. It cannot retroactively establish what the governmental record contained when these requests were made. This is not an allegation that a specific record was fabricated. It is a refusal to let later-created material substitute for contemporaneous evidence that was not produced during the investigation.

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Separate Requests and Shared Representation

John Williams contacted each office separately knowing that G.L. c. 12, section 3 gives the Attorney General a broad role in providing legal services to the Commonwealth. The requests gave each custodian a fair opportunity to identify and produce its own records; they were not premised on five unrelated legal positions.

OCA showed that a direct, substantive oversight response was possible. The remaining record did not provide comparable, custodian-specific answers. Shared representation does not prove unlawful coordination or concealment. It also means that answers moving through the same legal structure are not independent corroboration and cannot replace the records of individual custodians.

The Communication Boundary

Justice Is Exposure instructed governmental recipients on August 10, and again in a formal September 9 notice, that all communications concerning this matter must include Dr. Jessica Lynn Campbell. The Attorney General's September 15 email was sent only to John Williams. Its CC field was empty.

That repeated exclusion is unacceptable. Whatever the motive, bypassing the organization's designated Chief Information Officer after repeated written notice disregards her office and disrespects Justice Is Exposure. Messages that exclude Dr. Campbell are procedurally noncompliant and invalid for the organization's review. They will be preserved, but they will not reopen this investigation.

"Massachusetts had the time, the requests, the clarification, and the

opportunity. OCA responded. The other offices did not produce the records

needed to explain the 2026 decision history. This investigation is over. We

will not wait while anyone creates a perception after the fact. I have now

seen what happened after the settlement. I understand what the settlement

closed on paper, what it failed to change in practice, and what

Massachusetts chose to leave unaccounted for." 

- John Williams, Founder, Justice Is Exposure Media, LLC

Final Finding

Based on the record at closure, Justice Is Exposure concludes that concerns addressed by the 2026 law were documented years earlier and that the responsible state offices did not produce a coherent documentary account of the period between notice and enactment. The Commonwealth's public celebration of Chapter 179 was not accompanied by an equivalent public accounting of that history.

Chapter 179 is a real and substantive law. The unresolved issue is the history preceding it. Justice Is Exposure will grant no further time. Records received later may be reported as post-closure material, but they will not alter what the record contained when the investigation ended. Closure does not withdraw any pending public-records request, release any preservation obligation, or waive any right held by Justice Is Exposure or John Williams.

Official references Chapter 179 of the Acts of 2026 | G.L. c. 12, section 3 | G.L. c. 66, sections 10 and

10A

About Justice Is Exposure

Justice Is Exposure Media, LLC is an independent media and public-accountability organization founded by John Williams. Its work focuses on truth, growth, awareness, accountability, and the human consequences of institutional failure.

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Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2026 9:20 AM

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Subject: MASSACHUSETTS ANNOUNCED TRANSPARENCY. JUSTICE IS EXPOSURE™ IS STILL SEEKING THE RECORD

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE.

MASSACHUSETTS ANNOUNCED TRANSPARENCY. JUSTICE IS EXPOSURE™ IS STILL SEEKING THE RECORD.

Agency correspondence documents an unanswered DCF response estimate, unresolved records inquiries, and a continuing gap between public assurances and public disclosure.

September 15, 2026 — Justice Is Exposure Media, LLC

Correspondence status reviewed on the morning of September 15

JUSTICE IS EXPOSURE™ today challenges the gap between Massachusetts’ public celebration of child-welfare reform and the unresolved portions of the governmental records requests submitted to examine it.

On August 7, the administration publicly presented An Act Enhancing Child Welfare Protections as landmark legislation that would strengthen child protection, transparency, and accountability. Justice Is Exposure subsequently sought records documenting the governmental knowledge, recommendations, decisions, and implementation planning behind those claims.

The organization does not dispute that the legislation was enacted. It disputes the proposition that announcing reform supplies the public with a sufficient accounting of the history behind it or demonstrates that its intended protections are being delivered.

Enactment is not implementation. An announcement is not an audit. And a promise of accountability is not a substitute for the records needed to examine it.

Following the Commonwealth’s public announcement of the child-welfare reform legislation, Justice Is Exposure Media, LLC directed its governmental transparency and public-records inquiries to the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families, the Office of the Attorney General, the Office of the Governor, and the Office of the Child Advocate. The organization subsequently directed a separate request to the Executive Office of Health and Human Services on August 24, 2026, after OCA identified that office as a potential custodian of relevant records. These inquiries sought each institution’s own documentary record—not a single response presumed to speak for every office.

For agencies subject to the Massachusetts Public Records Law, G.L. c. 66, § 10(a)–(b), generally requires access to qualifying public records within ten business days of receipt or a written response meeting the statute’s requirements when records are withheld or production requires additional time. This is a statutory obligation, not merely a professional courtesy. The Governor’s Office has a separate legal status and publicly states that it intends to follow the law voluntarily, as addressed below.

The Office of the Child Advocate—an independent oversight office within Massachusetts government—was able to interpret the August 10 request and provide a substantive documentary response on August 21, within the ten-business-day period. OCA identified six public collections and twelve individual responsive records and included Dr. Jessica Lynn Campbell in its response. Its handling of the inquiry demonstrates that a meaningful response can identify the requested material rather than leave the requester with an acknowledgment alone.

THE EXISTING RECORD MAKES THE QUESTIONS MORE SPECIFIC

The Office of the Child Advocate’s production matters precisely because it identifies an existing history.

In a July 8, 2026 letter to legislative conferees, OCA described the legislation as including “many priorities the OCA has long advocated for.” The same letter connected proposed changes to research and recommendations dating to 2022.

That history raises a legitimate institutional question:

What happened between the identification of these concerns, the recommendations for action, and the decisions that ultimately followed?

Justice Is Exposure is not asking public officials to invent a history after the fact. It is seeking existing records that permit the public to examine that history accurately.

The organization recognizes that the act contains phased provisions. It is not declaring every future implementation requirement overdue. It is asking for the records, responsibilities, and plans that can distinguish a legislative commitment from its eventual execution.

DCF IDENTIFIED SEPTEMBER 3. THAT DATE PASSED.

In its August 27 correspondence, DCF stated:

“DCF estimates a response will issue by September 3, 2026.”

The letter concerned Justice Is Exposure’s request for records about DCF’s receipt, routing, internal handling, and related treatment of the organization’s communications.

As of the morning review supporting this release, Justice Is Exposure has not located a subsequent DCF records production or further status response resolving that request.

The organization did not invent the September 3 date. DCF supplied it.

DCF should now identify what has been searched, what can be produced, what is being withheld and on what basis, and any extension on which it relies.

The issue is not whether a records search can require work. The issue is whether the agency follows through on the response schedule it communicated and provides an accountable explanation when that schedule changes.

EOHHS ASKED FOR CLARITY. JUSTICE IS EXPOSURE PROVIDED IT.

The Executive Office of Health and Human Services did respond to the inquiry.

On August 25, Assistant General Counsel Cole Cagle requested clarification of the records sought and the relevant timeframe. Dr. Jessica Lynn Campbell was included in that correspondence.

Justice Is Exposure replied with ten EOHHS-specific categories and a defined search period. The clarification expressly distinguished EOHHS’s own records from records held exclusively by DCF, the Governor’s Office, or the Attorney General’s Office.

No subsequent substantive EOHHS production was located in the correspondence reviewed for this release.

A request for clarification deserves an answer. A supplied clarification deserves follow-through.

Justice Is Exposure seeks a clear disposition of that clarified request—not an assumption that EOHHS possesses every record maintained elsewhere in government.

THE GOVERNOR’S OFFICE ACKNOWLEDGED THE INQUIRY. THE SUBSTANTIVE ACCOUNTING REMAINS UNRESOLVED.

On September 9, the Governor’s Constituent Services office wrote:

“We will direct your inquiry to the appropriate personnel.”

That communication acknowledged the organization’s correspondence. It did not attach records or provide the requested substantive accounting. No subsequent substantive response was located during this review.

Routing an inquiry is an administrative step. It is not the completion of the inquiry.

Justice Is Exposure recognizes that the Governor’s Office occupies a different legal position from ordinary executive agencies under Massachusetts public-records law. The office’s own public guidance nevertheless states that Governor Healey intends to follow the law voluntarily and provide greater transparency. The organization is calling for that stated commitment to be demonstrated in practice.

THE AGO PRODUCED RECORDS ON ONE REQUEST. ANOTHER SEARCH REMAINS PENDING.

Justice Is Exposure acknowledges the Attorney General’s Office’s August 27 production of forty pages concerning the handling of the organization’s communications. The accompanying letter asserted attorney-client redactions and requested clarification of a separate policy/procedure category.

Internal correspondence documenting the receipt, circulation, or routing of Justice Is Exposure’s own communications is not, standing alone, a sufficient response to the separate requests for records documenting the development, rationale, and implementation of child-welfare reform. The August 27 production is acknowledged for the request it addresses; it does not, merely by having been transmitted, resolve the separate legislative and policy-history inquiries. The AGO’s own correspondence distinguishes its response to the August 13 handling-of-communications request from its continuing search concerning the request received August 24.

Evidence of how government handled an inquiry is not a substitute for evidence addressing the subject of that inquiry. Justice Is Exposure is asking for the underlying records—or a legally sufficient explanation of their withholding, absence, or delayed production—not treating the existence of correspondence as proof that the substantive records inquiry has been resolved. The measure is not simply whether pages were returned. It is whether the particular request has been addressed.

The organization will not describe that production as nonexistent.

But a response to one records request does not automatically resolve another.

On September 8, the AGO stated that it was still searching for records responsive to the policy-history request it identifies as received August 24. It anticipated a further response on or before September 15, while noting that it might seek additional time.

September 15 is the anticipated response date—not a date this morning’s release can already characterize as missed.

Justice Is Exposure will assess any response actually received against the request it addresses, the records it provides, the exemptions it asserts, and the issues it leaves unresolved.

OCA’S COOPERATION WILL BE RECOGNIZED ACCURATELY

The Office of the Child Advocate identified six public collections, supplied twelve individual records, and identified additional potential custodians. Its response included both John Williams and Dr. Jessica Lynn Campbell.

It also withheld additional nonpublic materials under identified statutory exemptions. Justice Is Exposure recognizes both parts of that response.

OCA is an independent agency within state government. Its contribution demonstrates why independence, identifiable source material, and clear records responses matter.

Accountability requires acknowledging cooperation as accurately as it documents shortcomings.

LEGAL REPRESENTATION DOES NOT REPLACE PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY

John Williams recognizes the Attorney General’s broad statutory role in providing legal representation and services to the Commonwealth, its departments, and its officers under G.L. c. 12, § 3, subject to applicable exceptions.

That role does not, by itself, establish improper coordination or concealment. Nor does it answer the separate question of whether a particular records custodian has met its disclosure obligations.

The Commonwealth’s access to legal representation cannot be substituted for a public accounting of its conduct.

Where compliance is disputed, Justice Is Exposure reserves its rights to seek review by the Supervisor of Records and appropriate judicial relief under G.L. c. 66, § 10A.

THE ORGANIZATION’S LEADERSHIP DEMAND REMAINS

Justice Is Exposure maintains John Williams’s call for Governor Maura Healey’s resignation and for leadership accountability within the institutions whose stewardship the organization is examining.

That demand is the organization’s editorial judgment about leadership and public trust. It is not a representation that criminal charges have been established by these emails.

The organization will continue to criticize leadership it considers inadequate while evaluating each factual claim against the available evidence.

Public office does not entitle its holder to public confidence. That confidence must be earned through conduct, disclosure, and results.

WHAT JUSTICE IS EXPOSURE IS REQUESTING NOW

For each unresolved request, Justice Is Exposure seeks the available nonexempt records; specific reasons for withholding; identification of records not held and other known custodians; and a clear production timetable, including any applicable extension petition or determination. These requests are grounded in the response framework of G.L. c. 66, § 10.

The organization does not demand unlawful disclosure of children’s confidential information or the creation of records that do not exist.

Correspondence should be directed to admin@exposureisjustice.org, with Dr. Jessica Lynn Campbell, Chief Information Officer, copied at jessica@exposureisjustice.org.

This communication instruction does not withdraw any pending request or authorize delay in providing a legally required response.

FEDERAL OVERSIGHT MUST BE DISCUSSED WITHIN ITS ACTUAL AUTHORITY

Justice Is Exposure calls for appropriate federal authorities to examine any documented concerns falling within their jurisdiction.

Federal law provides for review of state child-welfare programs’ conformity with applicable federal requirements through 42 U.S.C. § 1320a-2a, including corrective-action mechanisms. That is a legitimate oversight framework—not proof that an unanswered state records request constitutes a federal crime.

This release does not announce an existing federal investigation or claim a predetermined federal finding.

THE REQUESTS REMAIN ACTIVE

Justice Is Exposure invites any recipient disputing a factual statement in this release to identify the precise statement and supply the contrary record. The organization will examine corrections and update its reporting where warranted.

Its examination remains near completion, but unresolved records requests remain open.

Massachusetts may describe its reform as landmark. Justice Is Exposure will continue asking whether the record and the results justify that description.

The organization’s position is straightforward:

Public relations will not be accepted as a substitute for public accountability.

Watch the full conversation:

Massachusetts DCF: The Record Speaks

https://youtu.be/DbN0d3QVEfI

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