Massachusetts Police Report vs. Police Log
Police Logs are governed by Massachusetts General Law, Chapter 41 Sec. 98F (see below):
Chapter 41: Section 98F. Daily logs; public records
Each police department and each college or university to which officers have been appointed pursuant to the provisions of section sixty-three of chapter twenty-two C shall make, keep and maintain a daily log, written in a form that can be easily understood, recording, in chronological order, all responses to valid complaints received, crimes reported, the names, addresses of persons arrested and the charges against such persons arrested. All entries in said daily logs shall, unless otherwise provided in law, be public records available without charge to the public during regular business hours and at all other reasonable times; provided, however, that any entry in a log which pertains to a handicapped individual who is physically or mentally incapacitated to the degree that said person is confined to a wheelchair or is bedridden or requires the use of a device designed to provide said person with mobility, shall be kept in a separate log and shall not be a public record nor shall such entry be disclosed to the public.
A police report consists of a cover sheet and written narrative regarding a particular event. A police accident report is a statewide multi-part form that must be completed by a police officer in certain circumstances. The usual threshold for reporting of accidents by the police is an accident in which any person is killed or injured or in which there is damage in excess of one thousand dollars to any one vehicle or other property.
