Police shoot and kill 95-year-old nursing home resident who didn't want to go to hospital

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35. I hope she sues that police department out of existence.

And the ACLU is attempting to get records of all SWAT activity for 58 counties in Eastern MAssachusetts.


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ACLU Sues Regional Police Group for SWAT Records


By Roberto Scalese
Boston.com Staff
June 24, 2014 6:21 PM


The ACLU of Massachusetts has sued a regional law enforcement council for records pertaining to the group’s SWAT team.

The North Eastern Massachusetts Law Enforcement Council, the target of the lawsuit, is comprised of officers from 58 municipal police and sheriff departments in Middlesex and Essex counties. “The lawsuit is about public accountability,” ALCU attorney Laura Rotolo told Boston.com. “We have been trying to document the militarization of police departments around the country.”


According to the lawsuit filed Tuesday in Suffolk Superior Court, the ACLU asked NEMLEC and other regional law enforcement councils in the state for records pertaining to procurement, training and use of both the SWAT and Rapid Response Team.

As part of an effort to document regional policing operations, the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Massachusetts (“ACLUM”) requested documents concerning NEMLEC’s SWAT Team and RRT in July 2012. The request sought NEMLEC’s training materials, incident reports, deployment statistics, guidelines, procurement records, budgets, agreements with other agencies and documents relating to the structure of the SWAT team and RRT.

NEMLEC refused to provide the documents, saying it was a private, nonprofit organization and not subject to the state’s public record law.

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