Scope and Content: The attorney general of Massachusetts was authorized by Resolves 1930, c 4 and c 13 to make an investigation of the circumstances surrounding the pension awarded to Oliver B. Garrett as a member of the Police Department of the city of Boston (following an accident on August 2, 1927) and related matters, and to conduct public hearings thereon.  Series consists of transcripts of those hearings, including testimony and exhibits.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
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Scope and Content: As chief legal officer of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the attorney-general, at that time Henry C. Attwill, participated in and accrued files relating to the prosecution of Elizabeth M. Skeels, tried in 1919 for the murder of Florence M. Gay, who died of arsenical poisoning in 1917.  Skeels was acquitted.  Series contains trial transcript (Essex Superior Court Criminal Session, Judge Webster Thayer presiding), depositions, autopsy reports, and other court exhibits and filings, as well as correspondence and background materials on court cases stemming from similar circumstances.
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Scope and Content: The attorney general of Massachusetts is the Commonwealth’s chief legal officer.  The Executive Bureau, which includes the attorney general and personal staff, is responsible for the overall supervision of the legal services provided by the office, for budgetary and personnel matters, and for the development of a uniform and consistent legal policy for the state.  Series is created by the bureau to administer transition in the office following a general election.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by transition, thereunder by office unit/topic
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Scope and Content: The Victim and Witness Assistance Board, established by Massachusetts’s Victim Bill of Rights (St 1983, c 694, effective 1984–see currently MGLA c258B), is chaired by the state attorney general. The board governs the Massachusetts Office of Victim Assistance (MOVA), created in 1984 as the executive office of the board (Minutes, Aug. 28 and Oct. 24, 1984; Apr. 29,1985). The office and board review and approve federal and state grant funds given to programs to help victims (and witnesses) of crime, provide direct support to such victims through information, referrals, and counseling, and work in the areas of advocacy, legislation, public policy, training, education, and outreach.
Notes: Box 1: 1984-June 1987. Box 2: July 1987-July 1990. Box 3: Aug. 1990-May 1994. Box 4: June 1994-1996. Box 5: 1997-1999
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