General Provisions

(1) All records and information concerning clients and applicants of the Commission shall be for the use of the Commission in the discharge of its duties. Records and information concerning clients and applicants of the Commission shall not be open to the public, notwithstanding the provisions of the Massachusetts Freedom of Information Act, (M.G.L. c. 4, § 7, paragraph 26; M.G.L. c. 66, § 10) or any other provision of law. (2) The Commissionmaypublishinformation concerning applicants and clients of the Commission in aggregate statistical or such other form that does not disclose the identity of the persons involved and could not reasonably be used to identify them.