What is The Mass Dump?
The Mass Dump is an archive of public records and other data related to Massachusetts.
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Check below for a list of databases and other projects hosted on this site:
- Public Records Database
- Massachusetts State Police Use of Force Database
- Massachusetts State Police Complaint Database
- Boston Police Complaint Database
- Police Misconduct Media Reports Database — 2022 (Incomplete)
— Andrew Quemere
Friends of the Dump
- MassTransparency — The home of Jeff Raymond’s public records projects, which use records requests to bring greater transparency across the entire Commonwealth. Raymond is also the cohost of Lights Out Mass.
- State Reference — Nathan Story’s huge, searchable database of Massachusetts public records, which uses web scraping to automatically incorporate new documents all the time. Listen to an interview with Story here.
- The Weed Out — A Western Mass-based podcast focused on police and prison abolition hosted by Spencer Fox Peterson and Joanna Mae Boody.
- Welcome to Hell World — Luke O’Neil’s bleak, irreverent, and hilarious newsletter about current events and the sorry state of the world. Listen to an interview with O’Neil here.
- Worcester Sucks and I Love It — Bill Shaner’s insightful newsletter about the Commonwealth’s second-largest city, “a city that punishes you for caring.”