28.06.2014 - 07:48 [ Techdirt ]

Massachusetts SWAT Teams Claim They‘re Private Corporations To Get Out Of Transparency Requests

The good news, however, is that these are public servants we‘re talking about here, so they‘re subject to a certain degree of transparency and information requests from John Q Public. Right? Right!?! Wrong, at least according to SWAT teams in Massachusetts, which are bizarrely claiming protection from such requests due to Massachusetts SWAT teams now being part of a private corporation.