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
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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 burst into the Raleigh, North Carolina, home that Yolanda Irving shared with her five children. For nearly two hours, the cops poked around and pointed guns at the family, searching the home and three of Irving's kids. "The entire family was terrified that they were about to be shot and killed," Irving's lawyer said in court this week. The cops were looking for drugs and money, one officer told Irving. They had the wrong house. Their search warrant listed her address but featured a picture of another ...
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PEN America looks at new educational gag orders, which were enacted in 10 states in 2021. "Last year's wave of educational gag orders – legislative restrictions on the freedom to learn, read, and teach…focused predominantly on K-12 schools; only 26% of the proposed gag orders explicitly implicated higher education institutions," the group reports. But this year will be different: In 2022, educational gag orders are being aimed squarely at colleges and universities to exert ideological control over what is being taught and read in classrooms and lecture halls. Last year, only three states (Idaho, Iowa, and Oklahoma) passed these sorts ...
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A good marijuana and banking measure is tucked into a bad bill. "The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday preliminarily approved an amendment that would protect banks that work with state-legal marijuana businesses," reports Marijuana Moment. But while the measure was procedurally adopted in a voice vote without debate as part of an en bloc package with other amendments, a roll call vote was requested for formal passage, which is expected on Thursday. Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D-CO) has been seeking potential vehicles for his Safe and Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act, which has previously cleared the chamber five times in ...
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More criticism of the EARN IT Act. We looked at this bill—yet another attempt to amend Section 230 of federal communications law—and what people were saying about it earlier this week. Since then, criticism of the measure keeps on pouring in, especially over the EARN IT Act's provisions regarding encryption. "Strong encryption means platforms don't know what their users are doing. EARN IT allows platforms to be sued or prosecuted under state laws for 'recklessly' disregarding risks to children that they would not even be aware of because they use strong encryption," noted Ari Cohn of TechFreedom in a statement. ...
A SWAT Team Wrongfully Raided Her Home. Now Cops Say Footage From the Raid Is Private Since No One Was Killed.
Judge says footage shouldn't be made public. In May 2020, a SWAT team burst into the Raleigh, North Carolina, home...
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