Separate from this dispute between the mayor and the radio host who impersonated a reporter to land the interview, the First Circuit ruled only weeks earlier that recordings of public officials shouldn’t be suppressed.
The mayor of Somerville, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston is Joe Curtatone. (Image via Courthouse News via Joe Curtatone campaign)
BOSTON (CN) — In a case pitting the mayor of a Boston suburb against Barstool Sports, the Massachusetts Supreme Court seemed unlikely Monday to seal up a recorded interview just because the interviewer faked his credentials.
The Bay State is one of several in the country that prohibits secret recordings, a law that Joe Curtatone, the mayor of Somerville, Mass., says made it illegal for a radio host who misrepresented himself as a Boston Globe reporter to record their conversation.