In 2007, Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration pushed through a new rule allowing jail staff to eavesdrop on detainees’ phone calls.  Seventeen years later, a city lawmaker now wants to make it illegal again to listen to and tape calls made by incarcerated people — citing unlawful snooping on lawyer calls and recent allegations of an […]

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