The Massachusetts judiciary is picking and choosing when it wants to serve the public and it’s making a system that’s already difficult to navigate harder for the public to access.
Mass. proposal to improve media’s access to courts
By Val Wang, producer for Order in the Court project, WBUR, Boston Last week marked a big change in the way citizen journalists can cover the courts in Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court announced a major proposal to update the state’s “Cameras in the Courtroom” statute, SJC Rule 1:19, to fit modern-day journalistic and technological realities.
