MA S1065

Prohibits law enforcement from using deception—including false facts, misleading evidence, or unauthorized offers of leniency—during custodial interrogations of juveniles, making any resulting statements presumptively involuntary and inadmissible in court

Requires all juvenile custodial interrogations conducted at places of detention (police stations, jails, holding cells, vehicles) to be recorded via audiovisual equipment from start to finish

Statements obtained through deception and any evidence derived from those statements are inadmissible unless the Commonwealth proves beyond a reasonable doubt the statement was voluntary and not influenced by deception

Unrecorded statements from interrogations at detention facilities are inadmissible unless the Commonwealth proves by clear and convincing evidence that recording was not reasonably possible—with lack of funding explicitly excluded as a valid excuse

Amends Chapter 119 of the General Laws by adding Sections 90 and 91, applying to all statements made on or after the statute's effective date