State fights challenge to recording law

State fights challenge to recording law

BOSTON — Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley, served this past spring with a federal lawsuit by controversial undercover journalist James O'Keefe's Project Veritas Action Fund over enforcement of Massachusetts' recording laws, responded Friday with a motion to dismiss.

Conley's chief argument for dismissal? Project Veritas has been unable to prove that secretly recording is an "indispensable tool" of newsgathering.

Parents helpless in face of teen privacy laws
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Parents helpless in face of teen privacy laws

Kelly Thomas

NEW ZEALAND – A young woman's heartbreaking story of her secret abortion and resultant infertility reveals what can happen when schools refuse to inform parents about the reproductive health issues of their under-aged daughters.

Hillary Kieft didn't know that her 15-year-old daughter had become pregnant or had an abortion until the distraught teen attempted suicide, the Daily Signal reports. On the day in question, Kieft's daughter had her school nurse accompany her to an abortion clinic, and then deceive her mother by telling her that the teen had stayed late for an after-school counseling session.

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