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Ex-GOP Congressman and Former FBI Agent Trainee Among Several Charged in Insider Trading Schemes 25 July 2022 A former Republican congressman, an ex-FBI agent trainee, and five other people have been charged in four separate insider trading schemes unsealed by federal prosecutors in Manhattan...

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...

No Charges for FBI Agents Who ‘Covered’ for Child Rapist with 500 Victims, Allowing Him to Continue to Prey on Kids 30 May 2022 A massive case involving over a hundred women and girls shined a light on the horrid sexual abuse and cover-up that took place within the USA Gymnastics program. For...

Report Shows ICE’s Massive Surveillance Apparatus Is All Up In Americans’ Everything 20 May 2022 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has long made its own case for abolishment. Before ICE earned its current reputation as a fake-school running, report-altering, rogue agency interested in...

Cops Who Sued Journalist For Reporting On Their Poor Handling Of A Rape Case Lose Their Defamation Lawsuit 18 March 2022 As Omar (RIP, Michael K. Williams) pointed out, using only his whistling and his sawed-off shotgun, “If you come at the king, you’d best not miss.” The “king” of First...

Cops Have So Much Extra Military Gear They’re Giving It Away To Ukraine Freedom Fighters 14 March 2022 Cops love military gear. For years, they’ve cultivated a mindset that pits them against the public in a war against crime — a “war” that justifies any collateral damage to the public and its...

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...

This Prison in California Forced Incarcerated People to Drink Arsenic for Years 13 February 2022 On April 5, 2012, three years into his stay at (KVSP) in Delano, California, Silus Valson sought medical attention for severe headache, stomach pain, diarrhea, vomiting and dark urine. The next...

Fallibility of facial recognition systems: ID.me Doesn't Have Enough Humans To Backstop Its AI, Allowed A Guy In A Bad Wig To Illegally Obtain $900,000 In Benefits2 0 15 February 2022 ID.me -- the facial recognition company that has managed to snag several lucrative contracts -- has gotten...

A Notorious Prison Tech Giant Is Poised to Cash In on Pell Grants for Incarcerated People Millions of dollars in college financial aid will soon be available to prisoners. Aventiv has taken note. 8 February 2022 Jerome “JJ” Taylor needed just one more humanities credit to earn his bachelor’s...

Trapped in the Floods with Floodwaters Rising, Prisoners Wait for Help in Floating Feces 12 February 2022 [ The flooding in Dixie County, Florida, began in July, brought on by Tropical Storm Elsa. Then the rains kept falling. By August, the ground was saturated, and the semirural county was...

Capitol Police Spies ‘Dressed Like Construction Workers’ To Surveil GOP Congressman’s Office 9 February 2022 Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX) has lodged a bombshell accusation against the Capitol Police, who he says broke into his office without his knowledge and photographed sensitive documents. Two...

A SWAT Team Wrongfully Raided Her Home. Now Cops Say Footage From the Raid Is Private Since No One Was Killed. Plus: A wave of educational gag orders, marijuana banking measure moves forward, and more... 3 February 2022 Judge says footage shouldn't be made public. In May 2020, a SWAT team...

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...

New California Law Makes It Easier To Sue Cops Who Violate Civil Rights 4 October 2021 California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday signed a bill (SB 2) that will eliminate several legal immunities that shield law enforcement from civil rights lawsuits, a move that will make it easier for victims...

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...

State Bill Creates Process to Finally End Qualified Immunity, And It’s from Republicans 29 December 2021 Bills filed in the Florida House and Senate for the 2022 legislative session would create a process to sue police officers in state court for using excessive force or taking other actions...

This Coastal Town Needs Federal Aid for Climate Adaptation. It Will Get a Military Truck Instead. But in Iowa, sheriffs have never even used their “mine-resistant” armored vehicle during blizzards. 23 December 2021 Surfside Beach, South Carolina is on the frontlines of climate change. Rising...

"... Boston police spent $627,000 on this equipment by dipping into money seized in connection with alleged crimes." In other words, steal from the citizens, then spend the money on "spy tech" so you can find more stuff to steal. Boston police bought spy tech with a pot of money hidden from...

Tenth Circuit Appeals Court Says Fourth And Sixth Amendment Rights Are Meaningless When National Security Is On The Line 17 December 2021 A case involving the first criminal suspect to be notified by the DOJ that evidence against him was derived from Section 702 surveillance has just reached...