Houston Says Businesses Must Install Surveillance Cameras and Cops Can View Footage Without a Warrant
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After the tragic shooting of Amir Locke, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has made changes to the controversial practice. But are they enough?
"This is such outrageous behavior by the FBI," a D.C. Circuit judge says, calling the agency's special treatment of rich people "deeply troubling."
That perplexing situation underlines the hazards of police tactics that aim to prevent violence but often have the opposite effect.
When you plug your phone into your car to listen to your favorite band or podcast, you give police a way to rummage around in your personal data without a warrant.
The former detective's trial should not obscure the responsibility of the drug warriors who authorized, planned, and executed the deadly raid.
Banning "no-knock" search warrants is not enough to prevent lethal confrontations between cops and people exercising the right to armed self-defense.
Ever wonder where people get the idea that police are thin-skinned bullies?
Regulators insist Fourth Amendment protections don’t apply to administrative searches.
The investigation of Trump aide Carter Page has exposed major problems with federal secret surveillance warrants.
With “keyword warrants,” anyone who queries certain terms on search engines will get caught in the surveillance dragnet.
More than 400 problems were found with 29 warrant requests, twice the number previously revealed.
"We are not eager—more the reverse—to print a new permission slip for entering the home without a warrant," declared Justice Kagan in Lange v. California.
An encryption back door will lead to abusive authoritarian surveillance—even if you present it as a way to stop child porn.
Regulating privacy protections would put the public at greater risk than criminals.
Three of the officers were denied qualified immunity, but accountability is a long way off.
The bill would limit petty seizures and require more reporting and oversight of no-knock raids.
Baltimore kept tabs on citizens' movement across 90 percent of the city, without a warrant, to investigate crimes.
Law enforcers have plenty of tools; they just want to paw through our data without effort or expense.
Fourth Amendment advocates win big in Lange v. California.
Two states have passed laws requiring court approval before the cops can use genetic genealogy services to track down a suspect.
"It makes me feel like the government is preying on the vulnerable and the weak to line their own pockets."
There will be no justice for Onree Norris.
Some of the changes may make a difference. Others, not so much.
State investigators say shooting justified because Andrew Brown Jr. drove toward law enforcement to escape arrest.
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A Messina, New York, police officer is under investigation after video showed him intentionally slamming a door into a car several times.
Section 702 is supposed to be used to snoop on spies and terrorists, not Americans.
Did the city's "policies, customs or practices," invite Fourth Amendment violations?
Over the objections of Gov. Larry Hogan, the state’s Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights is tossed out.
A phone in your pocket may as well be a GPS beacon strapped to your ankle.
The Bay State finally creates a police certification system.
Constitutional amendment overwhelmingly passes.
Drug prohibition turns police officers into enemies to be feared rather than allies to be welcomed.
The Washington Post's Radley Balko was a pioneer in reporting on the disastrous consequences of police militarization and the need for criminal justice reform. Now everyone else is catching up.
A new, terrible anti-encryption bill with a twist
The House will consider a surveillance reform proposal that failed in the Senate by just one vote.