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DPH & MTCP
10 documents released · 77.3 MB · 6 production groups
Agency
Mass. Department of Public Health
Program
Tobacco Cessation & Prevention Program
Request filed
March 25, 2026
Records produced
Three installments through July 20, 2026
This section covers the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and its Tobacco Cessation and Prevention Program, the state agency that funds much of the tobacco control activity documented elsewhere on this site. Where the municipal files show what happened in each town, these records show who is paid, by whom, and for what work.
The Department logged the request in March 2026 and produced records in three installments through July 20, 2026, after the scope was narrowed to state fiscal year 2024 and six named procurements.
The records set out three categories of spending — statewide capacity building, regional coalition contracts, and municipal policy grants — including a grant to the city that employs the coordinator who appears throughout the municipal records here. They also include about thirty grantee application forms in which organizations describe, in their own words, the work they are funded to do.
What the records show
This section covers the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and its Tobacco Cessation and Prevention Program — the state agency that funds much of the activity documented elsewhere on this site.
The Department logged the request in March 2026 and produced records in three installments through July 20, 2026, after the scope was narrowed to state fiscal year 2024 and six named procurements.
The production documents approximately $6.82 million in statewide “capacity building” contracts to five organizations, more than $5 million in regional coalition contracts, and roughly $10.8 million in tobacco and public health policy grants to at least seventeen municipalities — including $563,282 to the City of Melrose.
The later installments include roughly thirty grantee application forms in which organizations describe the work they are funded to do, in their own words: enacting local ordinances, mobilizing youth, generating earned media, and promoting policy in conjunction with local boards of health.
One caveat is worth stating plainly. The production does not contain a state-produced model Nicotine-Free Generation ordinance. What the Department released under that heading is a general model tobacco sales regulation addressing retailer density, permit caps, flavor restrictions and cigar pricing — the same document Amherst used, which offers the birthdate provision as one option on a checklist.
How the record unfolded — from the town’s own documents
Full briefing memorandum
A detailed analysis of DPH & MTCP’s complete production, with document excerpts and sourcing.
The complete public-records production, as released by the custodian.
Every document below opens as a PDF. Files the custodian produced in other formats — Word, Excel, Outlook messages — were converted for readability, and the file as produced sits beside each one behind a small grey tag (.DOCX) so the original is always one click away. Nothing in the production has been withheld, compressed or edited: the file count above is every file the custodian released. A few archives and calendar files cannot be rendered as PDF and appear in their original format, marked as such.
