On Tuesday, EFF urged the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, the highest court in that state, to affirm that a witness who has no knowledge of the proprietary algorithm used in black box technology is not qualified to testify to its reliability. We filed this amicus brief in Commonwealth v..
By agreeing to let law enforcement access your data, you are potentially incriminating yourself and your family members. We should hold off on future "DNA drives" until we have real legal protections against abuse.
DEPOSIT PHOTOS Criminal defense attorneys say a recent Supreme Judicial Court decision should give defendants a better chance of establishing that a pedestrian stop was racially motivated in violation of equal protection guarantees under the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights. In the case in question, three Boston police officers in an unmarked vehicle received reports of
Since state domestic violence laws were written, the understanding of what constitutes domestic abuse has evolved, and laws must keep up. Advocates make a strong case that the abuse many people, often women, experience from intimate partners is not adequately accounted for in current law.
Attorneys caution that body camera policies must be tightened to prevent police from evading the accountability and transparency the devices are intended to provide.