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Homeland Security Is Buying Its Way Around the Fourth Amendment 19 July 2022 American taxpayers pay to be spied upon. That's one takeaway from new documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which has been examining how federal agents spent millions to purchase massive...

New Arizona Law Will Make it Illegal to Film Within Eight Feet of Police Civil liberties groups oppose the law, saying it will impede First Amendment–protected activity and protect bad cops. 8 July 2022 Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, a Republican, signed a bill into law Wednesday that will make it...

Federal Judge Rules Gruesome Medical Neglect in Arizona Prisons Violates Eighth Amendment 1 July 2022 Arizona prison officials were deliberately indifferent to "grossly inadequate" medical and mental health care, violating inmates' Eighth Amendment rights, a federal judge ruled Thursday in a...

'Geofence Warrant' for All Cell Location Data From Area Near Robbery Is Ruled Unconstitutional Plus: New rules on sex discrimination in education, economists warn of housing market exuberance, and more... 1 April 2022 "Geofence warrant" was unconstitutional, says judge. Can the cops use...

The 5th Circuit Approves a Cop's Violent Response to a Dispute Over a 7-Year-Old's Littering The officer used a "pain compliance maneuver" to force information from the boy's sister, who was recording the encounter. 25 March 2022 A 2016 dispute between neighbors that began when a 7-year-old...

The 5th Circuit Approves a Cop's Violent Response to a Dispute Over a 7-Year-Old's Littering The officer used a "pain compliance maneuver" to force information from the boy's sister, who was recording the encounter. 25 March 2022 A 2016 dispute between neighbors that began when a 7-year-old...

San Diego County Jails Will Use Body Cameras Following Damning State Audit The California State Auditor's Office found that the jails responded poorly to inmate deaths. 4 March 2022 As part of a new pilot program, San Diego County Sheriff's deputies at a county jail will wear body cameras...

A Federal Lawsuit Challenges Blatantly Unconstitutional Anti-Crime Checkpoints in Jackson, Mississippi "You can't treat everyone like a criminal to find the criminals," an outraged driver says. In Jackson, apparently you can. 25 February 2022 Archie Skiffer Jr., who lives in Mendenhall...

Secret Surveillance Warrants Remain Secret In November, the Supreme Court declined to consider an ACLU petition arguing that the public has a First Amendment right to see the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court's classified decisions. 24 February 2022 For nearly a decade, the American...

Anti-Crime Checkpoints in Jackson, Mississippi, Blatantly Violate the Fourth Amendment To "get wanted individuals off the streets," police are stopping drivers without any evidence that they have broken the law. 23 February 2022 "We're checking driver's license, proof of insurance," a...

FOIA Lawsuit Featuring A DC Police Whistleblower Says PD Conspired To Screw Requesters It Didn't Like 17 February 2022 It's no secret government agencies love to screw with FOIA requesters. This is especially true when the responding agency doesn't care for the requester's attitude or thinks...

Terrible Vermont Harassment Law Being Challenged After Cops Use It To Punish A Black Lives Matter Supporter Over Her Facebook Posts 9 February 2022 In June 2020, in Brattleboro, Vermont, something extremely ordinary happened. Two residents of the community interacted on Facebook. It was not a...

D.C. Cops Conspired to Keep Records From Reporters, Activists, and Critics, Says Lawsuit Defense lawyer Amy Phillips is suing over what she calls the department's "watchlist policy." 3 February 2022 Did D.C. cops conspire to keep damning information from people and groups critical of them...

Chief: MPD Officer Fatally Shoots Man Holding Handgun At Downtown Apt. Building 2 February 2022 Minneapolis police say an officer shot and killed a man holding a handgun while executing a search warrant at a downtown apartment building Wednesday morning. While officials have yet to release...

Migrants Detained in Texas Border Operation Are Fighting Back — and It's Not Going Well For Gove. Greg Abbott A Texas judge ruled that the state’s arrests of migrants caught crossing the border is an unconstitutional encroachment on federal authority. 26 January 2022 Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s...

Police Caught Stealing Money from Innocent People To Secretly Buy Tech to Spy on Citizens’ Cellphones 8 January 2022 For decades now, federal government and their cohorts in law enforcement have been carrying out theft of the citizenry on a massive scale. We’re not talking about taxes, but an...

"Our findings reaffirm that law enforcement not only failed to protect protestors, but actively put them in harm’s way by enabling and encouraging predominantly white, right-wing armed civilians and militia groups that night. These actions escalated tensions, heightening rather than diffusing a...

Push on to separate coroners from law enforcement in California The Golden State is currently one of only three states that allow counties to combine the offices of coroner and sheriff 6 January 2022 A new bill introduced in the California Assembly this week would separate coroner offices...

In 2021, Qualified Immunity Reform Died a Slow, Painful Death Despite bipartisan momentum at the federal level, Congress still couldn't get anything over the finish line. 30 December 2021 The year 2021 was widely seen, almost certainly foolishly, as the end of a dark era and the beginning of...

Days before new law, court blocks Inglewood from destroying police disciplinary records 29 December 2021 A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge has temporarily blocked the Inglewood Police Department from destroying records just ahead of a new transparency law that is set to go into effect...