ABSOLUTELY RIGHT: Federal judge rules Mass. law prohibiting secret audio recording of police, government officials is unconstitutional. “According to the court, the Suffolk DA’s office has opened at least 11 cases involving a felony charge under Mass. General Laws Section 99, including cases where the person being recorded was a police officer. Similarly, the Boston Police Department has applied for criminal complaints against at least nine individuals for secretly recording police performing their duties in public.”

The opinion is here. Note that this case was brought by Project Veritas, which is here performing the First Amendment role once occupied by the ACLU.

See also, A Due Process Right to Record the Police. And, of course, Morgan Manning’s magisterial treatment.