State law banning secret recording faces court challenge

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

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…