VIDEO: Plainclothes Medford police detective threatens to “blow a hole” through man’s head

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Border police set to begin year long pilot to fingerprint non-citizens at airport departure gates

The Boston 2024 summer Olympic bid is dead

According to news reports, the US Olympic Committee has finally thrown in the towel on a highly controversial and locally unpopular 2024 bid to host the summer games in Boston.

What looks like excessive force to you and me might not to a judge—and she’s got the final say

Choctaw medicine man, civil rights activist dies after being booked into historically infamous Mississippi jail

Just weeks after Sandra Bland died in a Texas jail cell after having been arrested during a traffic stop, another activist is dead in eerily similar circumstances.

DEA inspector general report shows officials didn’t want to look too closely at its thousands of confidential informants

MuckRock's Shawn Musgrave reports:

Urgent: Take action to end rampant government secrecy in Massachusetts

Take action to update the Massachusetts public records law.

The DOJ is investing millions of dollars in research to spy on students at public schools nationwide

Campus cops: increasingly militarized, aggressive, and secretive

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Massachusetts has among the worst open records laws in the nation, but not for long