Friday, September 13, 2024
Tarr in the News 9.12.24
TARR IN THE NEWS 9.12.24
Recently interviewed by State House News Service’s Sam Doran
RE: State Wire Tap Law.
“The existing law is "clearly out of touch with the
development of technology and the changes in circumstances that have occurred
since it was originally enacted in 1968," Senate Minority Leader Bruce
Tarr said this week.
Tarr and Rep. Jeffrey Turco, a Winthrop Democrat, refiled
Baker's text this session (S 1128 / H 1786). Both bills were killed by the
Judiciary Committee earlier this year.
Massachusetts is an "outlier with regard to the
obsolescence of our statute and the need to modify it," Tarr said,
pointing not just to technological advancements but also to the reliance on
proving an "organized crime" connection in order to obtain a wiretap
warrant. That nexus can be "difficult to establish," the Gloucester
Republican said.
"Murder, manslaughter, rape, drug trafficking. Those
things do not necessarily involve organized crime, but they pose a serious
threat to public safety. And so the law should be changed to encompass them as
it is likely the case in many other states," Tarr said.”
Link to full article:
https://www.statehousenews.com/.../article_26c87378-7091...
