HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3102        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1529

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act authorizing recording of conversations during investigations..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1. Subsection D of section 99 of chapter 272 of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting, after paragraph 2 (e), the following paragraph: -

(f) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a law enforcement official conducting an authorized investigation into a crime against a person or for arson may conduct a one party recording with a suspect in a police facility which had clear and conspicuous notices that conversations concerning crimes against a person or for arson may be recorded in said facility without an additional notice after the individual has given his Miranda warnings.