A few weeks ago, we ran a piece about the BPD’s long overdue response to a request for internal communications and information regarding the city’s annual Freedom Rally, and how it might run up against the newly-enacted city parks-wide smoking ban. What we got back - or really, what we didn’t get back - was surprising.

Following last weekend’s 25th annual Hempfest/Freedom Rally in Boston, and the city’s recent ban on smoking of any kind in the Common, I was curious about how the Boston Police were instructed to patrol the event. But in the process for filing for this information, I came across one of MuckRock’s oldest overdue requests.