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For decades, Mass. attorneys general have tried to expand the state’s wiretap law.
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For decades, Mass. attorneys general have tried to expand the state’s wiretap law.

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Massachusetts attorneys general have for decades pushed the state to modernize its 1968 wiretap law, which limits electronic surveillance to cases tied to organized crime. Attorney General Maura Healey and several of her recent predecessors have unsuccessfully called on the Legislature to broaden the law’s reach beyond suspected organized crime figures, to make it easier…