Eric T. Berkman

State Police did not violate the wiretap statute, G.L.c. 272, §99, by taking body camera footage of an OUI suspect without telling him he was being recorded, the Supreme Judicial Court has ruled. Defendant Scott Grimaldi was stopped at a sobriety checkpoint in Springfield. Police ushered him to a secondary area where they recorded his unsuccessful attempts at performing field sobriety tests. In the recording area there was apparently a sign saying, “Checkpoint, video and audio recording.” The officers’ body cameras had red lights to indicate they were recording and one of the officers removed his body cam from his […]

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