The Worcester Telegram & Gazette
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More than 60 Massachusetts state troopers made “covert investigative recordings” in recent years that were never turned over to prosecutors.
The recordings were made in more than 250 criminal cases, the documents show.
In many cases they violated the state’s wiretapping law, documents obtained by the Telegram & Gazette show.
Judge: "No one's in charge, and no one’s responsible.” Troopers agree that the undercover officer who made the videos did not initially provide them to prosecutors.
Judge: Interim State Police Col . John Mawn Jr. did not appear for a requested subpoena because the department determined the subpoena was not legally valid.
Documents obtained by the T&G show Mawn , on June 29, 2023 , promulgated a policy governing the use of covert audio recordings in the department.
Burd ultimately agreed he should have known what to do once he was aware of recordings being made, but stressed that state police gave him no training.
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