BOSTON – Project Veritas, a guerilla journalism group known for taking undercover videos focusing a conservative eye on topics ranging from vote fraud to Common Core educational standards, sued in federal court to upend a Massachusetts law that bans most surreptitious recording.
The group, led by James O'Keefe, named Suffolk County District Attorney Dan Conley in its complaint, which claims that the state law is unconstitutional by making it a crime to secretly record another individual without their consent. The group says the state law violates its First Amendment rights as a journalism organization.
STATE HOUSE — Three newly-minted state representatives, the winners of last Tuesday's special elections, were sworn in and took their seats Wednesday afternoon prior to a House session where a bill to address the opioid crisis was adopted.
With Gov. Charlie Baker on vacation in Utah, Reps. Gerard Cassidy of Brockton, Stephan Hay of Fitchburg, and Thomas Walsh of Peabody were sworn in by Acting Gov. Karyn Polito, who said that it will be "a day you always treasure."
