If the death is officially ruled a suicide, it will be the fourth suicide in a BAU since April 2025 and the third specifically in the MCI-Norfolk BAU.

Ten months after Shacoby Kenny’s death was ruled a homicide, state officials claim they cannot force Suffolk County’s sheriff to suspend the guards involved. An investigation into institutional inacti...

If the death is officially ruled a suicide, it will be the fourth suicide in a BAU since April 2025 and the third specifically in the MCI-Norfolk BAU.

Ten months after Shacoby Kenny’s death was ruled a homicide, state officials claim they cannot force Suffolk County’s sheriff to suspend the guards involved. An investigation into institutional inacti...

The agency and BPD say the woman had been detained for shoplifting. The family says it’s a misunderstanding, and she was helping shop for Uber Eats.

The agency and BPD say the woman had been detained for shoplifting. The family says it’s a misunderstanding, and she was helping shop for Uber Eats.

Senator Bernie Sanders, Representative Ocasio-Cortez, and Senator Jeff Merkley introduced the Ban Flock Act on Friday, which would stop federal agencies from using automatic license plate readers.

Ten months after Shacoby Kenny’s death was ruled a homicide, state officials claim they cannot force Suffolk County’s sheriff to suspend the guards involved. An investigation into institutional inacti...

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A surveillance company wants to "close the gap" that Flock won't do, by pitching facial recognition on its cameras.

ICE is deliberately withholding the locations of some detainees from lawyers and loved ones. At what point does that amount to “disappearing” them?

"Flock and other companies are building an omnipresent digital dragnet without democratic consent, enabling law enforcement to track people across the country with the click of a mouse," writes Gideon Epstein, of the ACLU of Massachusetts.

Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins is reshuffling the upper rungs of his leadership team following a year-long absence.

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.”