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*burp* Clearwater police officer arrested for driving drunk, deputies say 25 April 2022 A Clearwater police officer was arrested on a charge of driving under the influence last week, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office. Jeremy Curvan, 40, of Palm Harbor was driving a Ford...

Appeals Court Hands Qualified Immunity To Cops Who Arrested Someone Over Satirical Facebook Posts 20 May 2022 Back in early 2016, Parma, Ohio resident Anthony Novak decided to have a little fun. He created a parody of the Parma Police Department’s Facebook page and began posting obviously...

The FBI Wants To Be Your Facebook Friend 14 April 2022 Undoubtedly, the FBI has always surveilled the open web, looking for persons or phrases of interest. It’s just going to get a whole lot better at doing it. And it’s going to spend millions of your tax dollars to make it easier to place...

FBI provides Chicago police with fake online identities for "Social Media Exploration" team Internal documents also reveal that police can take over informants’ social media accounts and pose as them online. 20 May 2022 Brian Campbell couldn’t sleep. It was May 31, 2020, and demonstrations...

A Federal Judge Says a Victim of Retaliatory Prosecution Can Sue a Cop Who Treated Criticism As a Crime An Arkansas police officer used trumped-up charges to punish a man who criticized him for violating the Constitution. 31 March 2022 Four years ago, Grant Long, a resident of Forrest City...

After Avoiding Jail for Child Sex Abuse Conviction, Cop Arrested AGAIN for Producing Child Porn 27 Marach 2022 In August of 2020, former New Mexico State Police officer, Ricky Romero, was granted a plea deal after admitting to soliciting and receiving sexually explicit images from an underage...

Faith Under Fire: A Pastor’s Legal Fight Against CBP Exposes a Reckless Surveillance Operation 6 March 2022 The sun was beginning to set as Kaji Dousa neared the border. It was two days into 2019, and the line she was about to cross separating San Diego and Tijuana was the site of a...

First Amendment Group Tells Appeals Court University Officials Shouldn’t Have Access To Qualified Immunity 10 March 2022 Qualified immunity has been heavily criticized for what it allows law enforcement officers to get away with. The Supreme Court-created doctrine excuses officers from civil...

Ohio Supreme Court Rolls Back Awful Rulings, Says Cop Must Use His Real Name If He Wants To Keep His Defamation Suit Going 4 March 2022 All the way back in August 2020, a Cincinnati (OH) police officer decided to sue some fellow citizens for defamation. The cop went after the authors of...

Cities Are Turning To Automation To Enforce Vehicle Noise Ordinances 2 March 2022 Automated enforcement may ease the burden on law enforcement agencies and direct more officers towards serious crime, but nearly every device given that job has tended to perform poorly. Red light and speed...

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...

Massachusetts Court Says No Expectation Of Privacy In Social Media Posts Unwittingly Shared With An Undercover Cop 22 February 2022 Can cops pretend to be real people on social media to catfish people into criminal charges? Social media services say no. Facebook in particular has stressed --...

Highly Decorated D.A.R.E. Cop Admits to Running Enormous Child Porn Ring That Abused Toddlers 21 February 2022 The Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) program should better be called an egregious exercise in how not to convince kids to keep away from substances the state deems illegal...

Cop Downloads Child Porn onto His Phone, Shares it at Dept. Meeting as Fellow Cops ‘Laugh and Joke’ 18 February 2022 In today’s digital age, revenge porn and sexual images posted online without the subject’s consent, is an unfortunate and all too common reality. It is also a complex legal...

Cop Trainer Encouraging Cops To Run Facial Recognition Searches On People During Traffic Stops 11 February 2022 Cops are out there giving each other bad advice. An instructor for Street Cop Training -- a New Jersey based provider of officer training programs -- is telling officers it's ok to...

Spring Hill, Kansas, officer/intimidater Shaun Whitesell (left) & Olathe, Kansas, officer/dog killer Mark Cantrell Court Grants Qualified Immunity To Officer Who Told Couple To Take Down Facebook Post About Off-Duty Cop Who Shot Their Dog 7 February 2022 This case -- sent to us by Eric...

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...

Chicago Cops Love Them Some Facebook Sharing, According To Internal Facial Recognition Presentation 1 February 2022 Somewhere between the calls to end encryption and calls to do literally anything about crime rate spikes at this time of year, at this time of day, in [insert part of the...

In 2019, The FBI Took NSO Malware For A Spin Before Deciding It Might Cause Too Many Problems In Court 31 January 2021 The latest disturbing revelation about Israeli malware merchant NSO Group is a bit delayed. NSO has claimed its malware can't be used to target American phone numbers which...

Public records available in Tuolumne County Superior Court showed that Young [previously] was arrested in September 2017 for misdemeanor DUI in Sonora and pleaded guilty that December, for which he received a fine and three years of probation. Retired police officer faces murder charges in...