The solution lies with the Massachusetts Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission and the Board of Bar Overseers.

Dozens of Massachusetts agencies — including the police department in Brockton, one of the state’s largest cities — have no policy governing the use of informants, a fact that one criminal justice ...

The Boston Globe's Spotlight team has a new podcast out that explores the role of confidential informants in the work of law enforcement. The podcast "Snitch City" focuses on the confidential ...

Federal civil rights officials have ended their oversight of the Orange County district attorney’s use of jailhouse informants, confident that the office has sufficiently reformed its practices. The U ...