Yes, the entire neighborhood.

BTD's been out in force recently in the municipal lot on Taft Hill Road, placing parking-ticket-like warnings that the city will soon begin ticketing cars - at $25 a pop - found in the lot for more than two hours.

The warnings specifically cite the harm long-term parkers are doing to local businesses in tough economic times like these.

Eric Poirier was released from jail last July following a sentence for indecent assault and battery - on the condition, however, that he wear a device to alert his probation officer where he was. But when the local probation office told a judge in Greenfield District Court it had not monitors available and couldn't get one for several days, the judge ordered Poirier back to jail because he was not meeting the conditions of his release.

The Supreme Judicial Court, however, ruled today it agreed with both Poirier and the state Attorney General's office this was a mistake:

The record demonstrates that the defendant acted reasonably and in good faith to comply with his statutorily mandated probation condition of GPS monitoring. He promptly reported to his probation officer after his release and made a reasonable, good faith (and ultimately successful) effort to find a temporary residence to implement the GPS monitoring. He reasonably could not have been expected to foresee that the probation department would have no GPS device available when he reported to his probation officer, and owed no duty to provide his probation officer with advance notice of his release. Where, as here, a defendant is not responsible for his inability to comply with a probation condition because the probation department failed to provide the equipment needed to comply, a defendant is not in violation of that probation condition. Nor is there probable cause of such a violation. Because there was no probable cause of such a violation, there was no just ground to detain the defendant until the probation department provided a GPS device.

Complete ruling.