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How Much Does The Press Care About Race and Policing?

October 8, 2015 By marthews Leave a Comment

On October 7, the Joint Committee on the Judiciary of the Massachusetts legislature held a marathon hearing on "Protected Classes. Privacy, and Data Collection Legislation". To be fair, Boston.com and the Boston Herald both reproduced … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston-globe, boston-herald, fourth-amendment, judiciary committee, racial-profiling

It’s Time To Push Hard On Surveillance Reform

April 16, 2015 By marthews Leave a Comment

The part of the PATRIOT Act that has been used to legitimate the mass collection of all of our phone call information, and much else besides, is a wicked awful provision known as "Section 215." Section 215 allows the FBI - and, it appears, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: basaaly moalin, Edward Snowden, fourth-amendment, government-surveillance, nsa, patriot-act, september-11, surveillance, surveillance state repeal act, terrorism

New disclosures on spy centers lead to protests in Boston, nationwide today

April 10, 2014 By marthews 5 Comments

Looks like the surveillance state has put its foot in it again. The New York Times has revealed that since "early 2012", the National Counterterrorism Center now has access to all data, not minimized for privacy in any way, that was … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston, fourth-amendment, fusion centers, government-surveillance, massachusetts, surveillance, surveillance-society

MA-5: Addivinola and Clark tussle over surveillance, differ only on wiretapping bill *UPDATED*

October 23, 2013 By marthews 14 Comments

UPDATE: To reflect substantive changes in information received from the Addivinola campaign, the title of this article and portions of the analysis have been changed to more accurately reflect Councillor Addivinola's positions. The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: democrats, democrats-senate-warrantless-surveillance, fourth-amendment, Frank Addivinola, government-surveillance, immigration, katherine-clark, ma-05, massachusetts, republicans, surveillance, surveillance-society, warrants

Coakley channeling the NSA? New wiretapping bill would legalize mass wiretaps at switching stations

June 18, 2013 By marthews 35 Comments

At a time when rolling back federal surveillance programs seems particularly challenging, we can still have a major effect here at the state level. Recently, Attorney-General Martha Coakley proposed a new bill that would actually … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: article xiv, fourth-amendment, law-and-lawyers, martha-coakley, massachusetts, nsa, petition, politics, surveillance, wiretapping

Massachusetts to imitate Congressional FISA cave-in?

July 17, 2008 By ACLUm blog 25 Comments

Just a week after Congress caved in and voted to expand the federal government's ability to monitor ordinary Americans' emails and phone calls, the Massachusetts legislature has voted to do something very similar. Carol Rose, Executive … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: fisa, fourth-amendment, privacy, telecom-immunity

Congress caved. We’re suing.

July 10, 2008 By ACLUm blog 32 Comments

For the record, here's the text of the Fourth Amendment: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: fisa, fourth-amendment, national, telecom-immunity

Police entry onto private property to arrest Barry Scott was unconstitutional without a warrant

July 23, 2007 By tudor586 43 Comments

I was challenged when I argued in a previous posting that Provincetown police lacked authority to enter upon private property to arrest Barry Scott for allegedly playing loud music and stirring up more noise with a few words of protest. The … [Read more...]

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Ride home tonight via an inland route, with a stop @sweetgreen. The improvements to cycling infrastructure on Tremont and around the Boston Common and Public Garden vs. what was there a year ago are incredible. Bravo to @BostonBTD + groups like @bostonbikeunion! (1 of 2) #bospoli

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"Downing sees evidence of inequities every time he drops his son off at daycare -I know that (he) will get more opportunities than many kids in his classroom b/c ... of different racial background, different ethnic background ... That's wrong" https://www.wbur.org/news/2021/03/04/ben-downing-gubernatorial-race-candicacy-baker #mapoli

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3 Mar

When Scott Brown won in January 2010, Alan Khazei told us, “you can’t read too much into it. It’s a special election!”

Bad result but good to keep in mind.

Stephanie Murray@stephanie_murr

Looks like JEFF TURCO wins the race to replace former House Speaker Robert DeLeo in the 19th Suffolk District. JUAN PABLO JARAMILLO comes in second by just under 300 votes.

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3 Mar

Yikes.

Adam Bass@AdamBassWCCS

The idea of a Pro Life Trump supporter winning Suffolk 19 is not out of the ordinary. Winthrop is particular is much more right leaning that Revere. And Revere got severely out voted. When Capobianco had his story, that left you with two progressives. #mapoli

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Jo_ComerfordJo Comerford@Jo_Comerford·
2 Mar

.@CDCgov dir. @RWalensky, once part of MA's #COVID19 advsy board, said

"Now is not the time to relax the critical safeguards that we know can stop the spread of COVID-19 ... not when we are so close."

But @MassGovernor pushes to reopen.

Who is advising Gov. Baker now?

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