The Suffolk County sheriff did not follow that standard after 11 correctional officers were involved in the homicide of a Springfield man.

Newly obtained records, photos and eyewitness accounts raise questions about ignored pleas for mental health care before Zahkuan Bailey-Sweeting died at Souza-Baranowski.

The Light reviewed statewide court records for 23 of the local men arrested last week and found 19 had no criminal charges.

How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.

How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.

LOWELL — Flock Group, Inc. is not only watching license plates in Lowell, but it is also watching the City Council meetings.

At one point in his decades-long fight for freedom, prosecutors declined to call on their own DNA expert whose findings skewed from their narrative

The proposed ordinance would have fined homeless people for sleeping outside in parks or other public property.

Darrin Howell says he is not the edgy young man he was at 21. To that point, the 44-year-old Dorchester man is looking to convince a state board, Gov. Maura Healey and the Governor’s Council that what...

For the third year in a row, the Boston Police have acquired and deployed social media surveillance technology without obtaining approval from the Boston City Council in apparent defiance of a 2021 or...

The arrests, lawyers and advocates for immigrants say, appear more indiscriminate than operations last year.

Some councilors were unaware the department was using license plate readers and social media monitoring tools.

Some councilors were unaware the department was using license plate readers and social media monitoring tools.

For the third year in a row, the Boston Police have acquired and deployed social media surveillance technology without obtaining approval from the Boston City Council in apparent defiance of a 2021 or...

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Gov. Maura Healey called on ICE to release more information after at least 10 arrests Monday and more Tuesday morning. Mayor Jon Mitchell criticized ICE “overreach.”

The deals were made at the behest of Stephen Miller.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...

Court officers have seen ICE detain eight people inside the New Bedford courthouse this year, including three in one week in August. To avoid ICE, some lawyers are now advising immigrant clients not t...

Deputies continue to search and arrest Latino drivers at a higher rate than white drivers, echoing the racial disparities that prompted court oversight of the department nearly two decades ago.

Several immigration attorneys say that Judge Christopher Cooper, one of the new temporary judges at Chelmsford Immigration Court, appears to be working too closely with government lawyers.

A Quincy man seeks $500,000 in a lawsuit against three officers he claims used excessive force during his arrest. The trial begins Monday, Sept. 21.

From January through August of this year, more than 1,500 searches of Holyoke’s data from outside police departments, ranging from Texas to Indiana, had justification that included the word “immigrati...

In July 2025, a team of US Marshals arrested 50-year-old Lipps in Tennessee at gunpoint while she was babysitting four young children. She was booked into the...

The department this summer started using a tool that combs through social media looking for possible threats.

The department this summer started using a tool that combs through social media looking for possible threats.

Jaxen Cole — a social media influencer specializing in motorcycle stunts being tried on two felony counts of fraudulent use of deepfakes — was found not guilty by a jury

One officer searched her ex-girlfriend’s license plate more than 650 times. Another officer ran his girlfriend’s plate nearly 70 times.

A “litany of deception and outright falsehoods ... have infected ICE’s representations to this court and others," the judge wrote.

Worcester city leaders suggested the DOJ may have revoked or rescinded its findings about police misconduct. But a copy of the department’s letter doesn’t make any mention of it.

Three days into a pilot program with the Boston Police Department, city officials realized Flock Safety had been distributing data it promised not to share with external law enforcement agencies, according to the city’s annual Surveillance Technology Report.