<h1 class="entry-title">Category: NEPBA News</h1>

NEPBA MEMBER SHOWS WHY POLICE OFFICERS ARE HONORABLE PEOPLE

CBS BOSTON  SOMERSET (CBS) – A Somerset Police officer who was called for a report of shoplifting ended up buying the suspects a gift card to help them buy a Christmas dinner for two young children. “They were very appreciative and almost shocked in a way,” Officer Matt Lima said. On December 20, Officer Lima […]

Ruling Permits Citizen Recordings of Police

Earlier this week, the First Circuit Court of Appeals said people can’t be prosecuted under the state’s 1968 wiretapping statute for secretly recording police in a ruling that upheld part of a lower court order that countermanded a statewide ban on such recordings. Read the article by Sarah Betancourt in Commonwealth Magazine here.