Deval Laurdine Patrick was elected (2006, 2010) from the Democratic Party ticket to two successive terms as the 71st governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. All hard copy and digital records of the Patrick administration are maintained under this record group and described in metadata using the heading listed above. The governor is responsible for nominating and appointing individuals to positions in the executive branch, to state boards and commissions, to county offices, and to local authorities. Under the administration of Deval Patrick, parts of this process were overseen by the Office of Boards and Commissions, with involvement also by the Personnel Office (GO60.07--for previous administrations see: Massachusetts. Governor's Personnel Office (GO3)). For an expanded agency history, see: https://www.sec.state.ma.us/arc/arcpdf/collection-guides/FA_GO.pdf

The Governor's Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth was established in 1992 to investigate utilization of resources from the public and private sectors to enhance and improve the ability of state agencies to provide services to gay and lesbian youth, and in the course of its investigations to provide periodic reports to the governor. It was dissolved in 2006, to be followed by the independent agency Massachusetts Commission on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Youth, renamed in 2013 as Massachusetts Commission on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Questioning Youth. Governor's Commission report (Feb. 1993), Making schools safe for gay and lesbian youth, based on statewide hearings, contains recommendations including amending MGLA c 76, s 5 to list sexual orientation among criteria for prohibited discrimination in public schools (St 1993, c 282). Reports from the 2006 body, 2008-2016, contain commission recommendations to further its mission to eliminate disparities between LGBTQ and non-LGBTQ youth populations, addressed to the legislature but often directed specifically at the Dept. of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Dept. of Public Health; also evaluation of the extent to which the previous year's recommendations were implemented, and listing of other activities of the commission.