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Yet another example of why cops don't belong in schools: This L.A. School Called the Cops on Unvaccinated Teens Who Showed Up for Class The students' negative COVID tests weren't good enough for school administrators. 28 January 2022 When 15-year-old Ellah Nahum and a few other unvaccinated...

Judge: Baton Rouge Violated the First Amendment by Trying To Imprison a Professor for Sharing Body Camera Footage It was the city that put the footage in the public record in the first place. 10 January 2022 The city of Baton Rouge tried to throw a law professor in prison after he shared...

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, police officers Tyler Richardson & Jared Michael Jupin detained innocent black teens at gunpoint Eighth Circuit (Again) Says There's Nothing Wrong With Detaining Innocent Minors At Gunpoint 4 January 2022 What's unreasonable for law enforcement to do when searching for a...

Only 3 NYPD Officers Have Been Disciplined for Misconduct During the George Floyd Protests The NYPD declined to punish nine other officers, despite recommendations from the city's Civilian Complaint Review Board. 30 December 2021 More than a year after the George Floyd protests, the New York...

Video of 'Fight Night' at Rikers Jail Leads Judge to Find Cruel and Unusual Punishment A New York state judge found video of guards ceding control of Rikers to gang leaders more than enough evidence to order the release of a pretrial inmate. 28 December 2021 A New York state judge ordered a...

A Judge Has Ordered Him Released From Prison—Twice. The Government Still Won't Set Him Free. Bobby Sneed's story highlights how far some government agents will go to keep people locked up, flouting the same legal standards they are charged with upholding. 13 December 2021 We don't know where...

Florida's Civil Asset Forfeiture Reforms Haven't Stopped the Shakedowns Despite civil asset forfeiture reforms in Florida, police are still finding ways to take people's stuff. 12 December 2021 On a May day in 2015, a task force of Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents and Miami-Dade...

Dallas Police Took $106,000 From a Traveler. They Haven't Explained Why. A police dog's alert prompted the search, and the money was seized via civil asset forfeiture. 8 December 2021 On Sunday, a Facebook post from the Dallas Police Department went viral. It depicts a police dog, Ballentine...

The Santa Rita Jail is a particularly dangerous place to be, with at least 45 prisoners showing up dead in custody there in the second half of the last decade. Elizabeth Nolan Brown has reported in Reason on that jail's awful record with pregnant prisoners. He Wouldn't Wear a Mask on a Bus...

Watch a Florida Cop Botch a Drug Field Test on Video, Then Arrest an Innocent Man The same officer was fired last year after video of him allegedly planting drugs in a car during a traffic stop emerged 17 November 2021 Body camera footage obtained by Reason appears to show a now-fired Florida...

She Tried To Report Sexual Harassment in Jail. After Her Suicide, the Guard Was Convicted of Assaulting Four Other Women. 29 October 2021 The family of a 23-year-old woman who committed suicide in a rural Washington jail says she tried to report sexual harassment by a guard, but her complaint...

After Years of Complaints, the D.C. Jail Has Been Deemed Too Wretched for Some Inmates 3 November 2021 The U.S. Marshals Service announced Tuesday that it was transferring roughly 400 inmates out of the D.C. Jail due to unacceptable living conditions that reportedly included water and food...

Denied Treatment for His Cancer, This Kentucky Man Died in Prison After Vomiting Blood 21 October 2021 Marc Crawford was booked into a Kentucky jail in May 2017. Just shy of a month later, he left state custody in a body bag. He had succumbed to a previously diagnosed case of lung cancer, one...

New Research Says Police in Schools Don't Reduce Shootings but They Do Increase Expulsions and Arrests 20 October 2021 New research finds that police deployed in schools, commonly called school resource officers (SROs), do not reduce school shootings, but do increase suspensions, expulsions...

Qualified immunity denied! A Prison Guard Who Pepper-Sprayed an Inmate Without Provocation Got Qualified Immunity. SCOTUS Disagreed. 23 February 2021 The Supreme Court on Monday dealt another blow to qualified immunity, the legal doctrine that shields civil servants from accountability for...