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 EDITORIAL

First Amendment scores a win in federal court...Pat Gordon doesn't know where we are going with this...that's why he will lose!

December 14, 2018, 4:18 p.m.

The First Amendment won a round in US District Court this week with a ruling that a 50-year-old Massachusetts law was never intended to apply to the recording of police or other government officials by activists or journalists.

The ruling narrows considerably the scope of a law passed long before the invention of cell phones and the window they can now provide on potential wrongdoing by public officials. Massachusetts’s wiretap law prohibits virtually any secret audio recordings, even in public settings. It is one of only 11 states with similar laws.

But a ruling issued Monday by US District Court Judge Patti Saris found, “On the core constitutional issue, the Court holds that secret audio recording of government officials, including law enforcement officials, performing their duties in public is protected by the First Amendment, subject only to reasonable time, place, and manner restrictions.” And so, she added, the law “is unconstitutional in those circumstances.”   https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/editorials/2018/12/14/first-amendment-scores-win-federal-court/GHegTeUEk2rUMN7LGGnnTO/story.html