Legal Opinion
Carey v. Commissioner of Correction
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided April 19, 2018No. SJC 12369PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBudd, J.
*222 **367 In 2013, the Department of Correction (department) announced that visitors to correctional facilities would be subject to search by drug-detecting dogs. The plaintiffs, who are visitors to correctional facilities who are not attorneys, allege that this canine search policy (policy) violated the department's existing regulations and that the department failed to follow requirements of the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), G. L. c. 30A, §§ 1 et seq., in implementing this new policy. The defendant Commissioner of Correction (commissioner) contends that the policy is **368 consistent…
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