Tommy Rosa is finally exonerated. Long overdue, but it’s never too late to celebrate freedom or justice. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/18/m...

Worcester sued over 911 response with police to mental health crises

LUCE is organizing a Week of Action: ICE Out of MA Courts! from March 16-21. Get involved! www.lucemass.org/courts #MApoli should do everything in its power to stop our courts from being used as staging grounds for targeting, hunting & kidnapping community members by federal immigration officers.

Get mad! And then get organized: bsky.app/profile/cour...

One Lynn father went to court over a broken taillight, and ended up deported to Guatemala. www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social

I often hear people say they don't see ICE in their communities, but that's because over the last few months ICE has focused on kidnapping people from courts where they are able to operate with virtual impunity. It's an absolute disgrace that our state allows this.

People are showing up to court in Massachusetts for minor issues and being kidnapped by ICE. I hope the legislature moves quickly on several pending pieces of legislation that will limit ICE's ability to operate in courthouses, including expanding virtual hearing access.

@gbhnews.bsky.social acquired eye-opening trial court data outlining the extent of ICE arrests in Massachusetts courthouses. read the investigation here; www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

NEW: The Northwestern DA’s Office spent thousands on a failed legal fight to hide the names of cops who had been charged with crimes—even though prosecutors had published some of the names and case details in online press releases and other self-laudatory documents. #Massachusetts #SunshineWeek

LUCE is organizing a Week of Action: ICE Out of MA Courts! from March 16-21. Get involved! www.lucemass.org/courts #MApoli should do everything in its power to stop our courts from being used as staging grounds for targeting, hunting & kidnapping community members by federal immigration officers.

Massachusetts sets up online site to report ICE misconduct www.universalhub.com/2026/massach...

NEW: The #Framingham Police Department says it determined that two police officers violated a policy against “criminal conduct”—but the department has provided few details about the allegations and has demanded $525 for the officers’ internal affairs records. #Massachusetts

Agreed💯! His family and community deserve answers and public acknowledgment.🤦🏿‍♂️

It has been *92 days* since Shacoby Kenny was killed by COs at the South Bay jail in a brutal assault and there is still no final autopsy report from the Medical Examiner. His family and community deserve answers and public acknowledgment. #AllEyesOnSouthBay #ShutDownSouthBay #bospoli #mapoli

Interestingly, when I requested this information from @massgovernor.bsky.social's office, I was directed to the DOC. That suggests the governor isn't reviewing these numbers and doesn't actually know how many people she's turning over to ICE or what (if anything) they've been convicted of.

This is a great overview from LUCE about how ICE is targeting immigrants in Massachusetts courtrooms. I have seen this firsthand and it's critical that we stop it. Visit LUCE's website to learn more and sign a petition in favor of legislation banning ICE courthouse arrests: www.lucemass.org/courts

If anyone is curious to see the yearly data on Massachusetts transferring state prisoners to ICE custody through the 287(g) program, here is the letter I received yesterday from the state’s DOC. This is data that the DOC spent months trying to withhold before finally sharing it yesterday.

Why should you care that Massachusetts transfers so many people with felony convictions to ICE? I tried to answer that question here: boltsmag.org/massachusett...

The data I've just obtained shows that the Massachusetts prison system has sent more than 2,000 people directly into ICE custody since 2009. It's facilitated between 78 and 172 prison-ICE transfers every year. Governor Maura Healey and leading Democratic lawmakers say they support this program.

In August, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Department of Correction told me that the state prison system transferred 164 people into ICE custody in 2023 and 2024. I filed a records request seeking data for other years besides 23-24, since the state has been working with ICE long before 2023.

The Massachusetts Department of Correction has been fighting me for months, trying to withhold data about its collaboration with ICE. Yesterday, I won that fight, and obtained records showing that the state has transferred more than 2,000 people into ICE custody since 2009. A quick thread:

Both John "Pepper Jack" Danilecki & Jarrod Gero have *long* internal affairs records, including allegations of excessive force. Do others on the list, too? Also Judge Krupp found Gero not credible during a 2021 motion to suppress (i.e. he lied on the stand). Tax dollars at work! #bospoli #mapoli

Oliver takes a dump on the Schumer-led Democratic demands after Alex Pretti’s shooting — “masks off, body cams on” — noting the killers had fucking body cams on, that that footage exists, that it didn’t change shit, and that we’re likely never to see it b/c they were exonerated automatically.

Judge rejects sheriff's bid to dismiss corruption charges www.universalhub.com/2026/judge-r... #Boston #SuffolkCounty

The same way you don't want people bombing you and your loved ones is the same exact thing that other people feel where they live.

“A former Brockton police officer and federal employee of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs was ordered to pay back funds he accepted from veterans and their families to approve and expedite benefits and disability claims, according to court records.”

We’ve spent the last 2 years “right-sizing” (closing) Boston Public Schools, because enrollment dropped. Anyone think there will ever be an effort to “right-size” the BPD, given the low crime rates in the city?

Commissioner Cox overturns sustained Internal Affairs findings against *these very officers* (www.bostonglobe.com/2023/10/24/m...) & is getting sued for retaliating when an employee tried to expose BPD fraud (www.boston.com/news/local-n...). She does not care. She never did. It was a ruse. #bospoli

Both John "Pepper Jack" Danilecki & Jarrod Gero have *long* internal affairs records, including allegations of excessive force. Do others on the list, too? Also Judge Krupp found Gero not credible during a 2021 motion to suppress (i.e. he lied on the stand). Tax dollars at work! #bospoli #mapoli

The system tells families of homicide victims to put all their stock in prosecution & punishment as a measure of justice. And then, when cases remain unsolved years later, they are left bereft, resentful, and without basic answers on the truth of what happened to their loved one. #mapoli #bospoli

As out turns out, the “civilization“ spread by the western powers was always repression, plunder, & mass death disguised under the language of universal rights.

"Between fiscal years 2023 and 2025, only the Nantucket County Sheriff’s Office and the Norfolk County Sheriff’s Office stayed within their annual budget appropriations, investigators wrote." www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/27/m...

"The DA’s office states that while on duty, Sergeant Daoust pulled over a vehicle for alleged speeding and marked lane violations. During the interaction, Sergeant Daoust used force against the driver, including physical force and the deployment of [] OC spray." #mapoli www.wwlp.com/news/crime/m...

Not only is Massachusetts one of six Dem-run states that hasn’t banned ICE’s 287g program (see map below)…. … it’s also the only state where a state-level agency, so one under the control of the governor (@massgovernor.bsky.social) is contracted with 287g: boltsmag.org/massachusett...

"Only 10 percent of those eligible to have their records sealed here have actually done it, according to The Clean Slate Initiative, an advocacy group. That’s because we’ve made it impossibly complicated." #mapoli www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/26/m...

Spread the word! Show up for Steve next week: 🗓 𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟰 🕘 9am 📍 John Adams Courthouse, Courtroom 1, 1 Pemberton Square, Boston The hearing will also be streamed on YouTube The DA's Office is shamefully appealing after promising to honor the judge's decision (bsky.app/profile/cour...)!

One more plug for my latest investigative story: I got body cam footage of a guy being wrongfully arrested for fentanyl after cops tested his prescription IBS medication using notoriously unreliable field kits. It took him a year and a half to get the charges dropped reason.com/2026/02/23/h...

“The #Massachusetts State Police hired an outside firm to review how the agency handled a fatal cruiser crash involving an allegedly drunk officer more than two years after the incident occurred.”

“But the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office says that neither a hearing featuring testimony from the officer, nor a dismissal, are necessary.”

“Defendants in a #Lowell murder trial want one of the key investigators in their case to testify about a fatal cruiser crash he was involved in, allegedly while drunk, in a move to dismiss their trial over prosecutorial misconduct.”

“but also misled the family about the status of the investigation.”

“Attorney Mike Mahoney, who represents Lynn Schettino, the mother of 37-year-old Angelo Schettino, said State Police supervisors not only withheld information about the head-on crash in Woburn — in which Quigley was allegedly driving nearly twice the speed limit and under the influence — …

“The family of a special-needs man who died after a December 2023 crash caused by State Police Sgt. Scott Quigley is preparing to expand their wrongful-death lawsuit to include civil rights violations.” #Massachusetts

Text version of that story here:

There's an interview with the victim's mother and her attorney here:

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“A scandal involving a State Police homicide detective has led to finger-pointing between the Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office and defense attorneys, raising questions about who knew the details of a fatal 2023 crash and why it took over two years for certain facts to surface.”

Navigating #probation is like trying to cross a minefield. Blindfolded. Imagine doing that while worrying about where your next meal is coming from—or if it's coming at all. In 39 states, that's not hypothetical. It's what someone is dealing with as you read this. New report from @prisonpolicy.org👇🏽

🚨TODAY: As calls for criminal justice reform grow louder, advocates are increasingly up against "carceral humanism" – a harmful strategy that offers only the appearance of change. Get tips & tools to resist these narratives at our webinar👇 zoom.us/webinar/regi...

A two-year-old car crash by a drunk-driving State Police trooper is coming to light, resulting in the trooper's suspension from the Middlesex DA's office, after a cover-up was revealed when the trooper's credibility was challenged in an unrelated case. #mapoli www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/24/m...