Securus has repeatedly come under fire for similar complaints of ethical and technological failings. As part of its settlement, Securus said it would create a new “private call” option for protected calls with attorneys and physicians and include additional warnings if the call is being recorded. Those recordings only came to light after someone hacked the corp's network and found some 70 million stored conversations, which were subsequently leaked to journalists.Įven though that lawsuit was started in 2016, Securus perhaps did not fix its apparent software bug because the recordings in this new lawsuit took place from September 2019 to May this year. That time, two former prisoners and a criminal defense attorney sued Securus after it recorded more than 14,000 legally protected conversations between inmates and their legal eagles. Just three months ago, in May this year, the company settled a similar class-action lawsuit this time covering jails in California. Groundhog ShawshankĪmazingly, this is not the first time Securus has been accused of this same sort of behavior.
They intend the lawsuit to cover “all current and former inmates and attorneys, excluding attorneys for the plaintiff, whose calls were improperly intercepted, recorded, or disclosed.” They are looking for a jury trial. It is possible that thousands of other phone calls between other lawyers and their clients inside jail have been recorded and distributed, so the three defense lawyers are seeking class-action status to get to the bottom of the issue. Tebbetts, plus Jeremy Pratt and Robert Ruffner, are the trio suing Securus this month. The detective alerted Maine’s Attorney General and the AG then informed the lawyers, providing them with copies of hundreds of calls made from jail and asked them to flag up any that were client-attorney protected so that they could be deleted.
The recordings only came to light in May after a detective was listening to copies of recordings he had been provided, and recognized the voice of one of the lawyers, John Tebbetts, talking to his client.
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