The eighteenth documented Massachusetts community to leave Flock, and the clearest statement yet that the vendor's data handling, not the cameras' usefulness, is the reason.
Data centers are an unprotected industrial use, which means a two-thirds town meeting vote can exclude them. The order, the moratorium case, the grandfathering rule, and the middle path most towns will choose.
An officer in a lit crosswalk, a driver at twice the limit, a probation case that never touched the license. G.L. c. 90, § 24L's mandatory minimum, why traffic stops do not suspend a license, and how the Commonwealth can hold him now.
Fifteen children, two devices, seventy counts. The 2014 statute written after the upskirt gap, why a public playground qualifies, what ten prior convictions mean for bail and sentencing, and why the law has nothing to say about the glasses themselves.
An indefinite impoundment order, the 2015 SJC case that permits it, why it cannot reach names already published, and what a six-figure fundraiser for the holdout means for picking the next jury.
Readers are asking whether a fired IT director left something behind. No official has said so and the charge against him is about purchases. What insider sabotage cases actually look like, why the March-to-September gap points elsewhere, and the two questions the City Council should ask.
A citywide ban on sleeping in public, a 24-hour limit on living in a vehicle, and 197 shelter beds. The Supreme Court removed the main constitutional objection in 2024. What the ordinance says, what the law still requires, and what to ask before the vote.
The report obtained by WBUR shows the switch that keeps a city's plate data local failed in practice. What the pilot audit found, which agencies asked for the data, what the surveillance ordinance requires, and what it means for the 25 Massachusetts towns that have already left.
More than 700 items, $98,000, one count of larceny. What the Middlesex DA alleges, what G.L. c. 266, § 30 provides, why the case could move to Superior Court, and why the arraignment during Everett's cyberattack closure is a coincidence, not a link.
The seven-day release and 45-day dismissal rules are gone in Suffolk and Middlesex. The dismissals stand unless re-filed. The $85 rate, the missing bargaining mechanism and the Sixth Amendment Center's findings are untouched.
