{"id":1939,"date":"2019-04-07T05:58:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T09:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/?p=1939"},"modified":"2019-04-06T21:03:44","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T01:03:44","slug":"media-access-to-police-reports-and-booking-photographs-at-issue-before-massachusetts-supreme-judicial-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/media-access-to-police-reports-and-booking-photographs-at-issue-before-massachusetts-supreme-judicial-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Media access to police reports and booking photographs at issue before Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court will soon address what right the media has to access criminal records. \u00a0The case involves the request of the Boston Globe for a booking photograph of an officer after an arrest. \u00a0Attempts by the media to gain access to criminal files has been a big issue in the news recently. \u00a0One of the major issues in the Robert Kraft case will be whether the media will be allowed to see the surveillance video of the spa. \u00a0The case before the SJC involves similar issues of the right of public access versus the right of someone charged with a criminal offense not to be unduly shamed and harmed publicly by the publication of evidence of the criminal case. \u00a0Having a booking photo posted online, is in someway more damaging to someones career and reputation than a criminal conviction. \u00a0Normally, the media will access the police report and booking photographs through copying the court file which is public record; the case on appeal involved a clerk magistrate hearing where the complaint did not issue and another case where the court file was sealed. \u00a0Clerk magistrate hearing are not open to the public; however, another lawsuit by the Boston Globe is attempting to challenge the privacy of clerk magistrate hearings.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s2\">The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court will hear oral arguments next month to determine whether a Superior Court <\/span><span class=\"s2\">j<\/span><span class=\"s2\">udgment allowing press access to <\/span><span class=\"s2\">certain <\/span><span class=\"s2\">criminal record information should be overturned. In February all parties <\/span><span class=\"s2\">in the case of<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ma-appellatecourts.org\/search_number.php?dno=sjc-12690&amp;get=Search\"><span class=\"s3\">Boston Globe Media v. <\/span><span class=\"s3\">Dept. of Criminal Justice Information<\/span><\/a><span class=\"s3\"> Services, Massachusetts State Police, and the Boston Police Dept.<\/span> <span class=\"s2\">filed their briefs before the SJC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s2\">This case <\/span><span class=\"s2\">stems from a series <\/span><span class=\"s2\">of <\/span><span class=\"s2\">public records requests made by the Boston Globe. When a Globe reporter requested booking photographs of law enforcement officers who had been arrested in the summer of 2015, his request was denied by the Massachusetts State Police on the basis that the disclosure of those photos was prohibited by the CORI (Criminal Offender Record Information) Act. On a separate occasion when <\/span><span class=\"s2\">T<\/span><span class=\"s2\">he <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Boston <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Globe requested an incident report involving a Massachusetts state district judge, the request was denied for the same reason. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/media-access-to-police-reports-and-booking-photographs-at-issue-before-massachusetts-supreme-judicial-court\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Media access to police reports and booking photographs at issue before Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court will soon address what right the media has to access criminal records. \u00a0The case involves the request of the Boston Globe for a booking photograph of an officer after an arrest. \u00a0Attempts by the media to gain access to criminal files has been a big issue in the news recently. 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