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License-Plate-Tracking Cameras at Cape Cod Bridges? Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court To Decide

Matthew McDonald

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court plans to decide whether the presence of cameras tracking license plates of every vehicle that goes over one of the two bridges to Cape Cod is legal.

State Police use the cameras to provide an alert every time a license plate on a Hit List goes over the Bourne Bridge or Sagamore Bridge over the Cape Cod Canal. That happened February 22, when a car driven by Jason McCarthy of New Bedford triggered an alert, which led to his arrest on drug trafficking charges.

Want To Donate To U.N.? Bill Calls for Climate-Change Option on Massachusetts Tax Returns
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Want To Donate To U.N.? Bill Calls for Climate-Change Option on Massachusetts Tax Returns

NBP Staff

Massachusetts tax returns ought to give residents a way to donate money to the United Nations to encourage third-world countries to fight climate change, environmental activists told state legislators.

The measure (Massachusetts Senate Bill 1602 and Massachusetts House Bill 2414) would establish a "Massachusetts Fund for Vulnerable Countries Most Affected by Climate Change … to further the mission of the United Nations Least Developed Countries Fund, … established by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to help under-developed nations adapt to climate change," according to the text of the bills.

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