The decision’s impact could be perhaps most profoundly felt among incarcerated people of color, as they make up almost two-thirds of those sentenced to de facto life for crimes committed as kids.
Browsing: Civil Liberties
Agencies repeatedly skip getting permission to collect data themselves and instead purchase it from data brokers.
The proposal has the support of Brooke Jenkins, the interim district attorney who replaced Chesa Boudin in June. Civil rights advocates warn that the policy may erode city residents’ privacy.
Three families being investigated filed a new lawsuit Wednesday against Texas Governor Greg Abbott, the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS), and DFPS Commissioner Jaime Masters.
In last week’s Shinn v Ramirez ruling, the Supreme Court dangerously accelerated the process of getting federal courts out of the business of enforcing rights, argues TCR’s legal columnist James Doyle.
Do internet “stings” aimed at identifying child traffickers or possible terrorists threaten the balance between combating crime and protecting privacy? A forthcoming article in the Canadian Criminal Law Review explores the question.
Citing it’s involvement in the ongoing defamation lawsuit between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, a law professor and criminal-defense attorney says the ACLU is a caricature of itself.
Democratic lawmakers in more than a dozen states, including, most recently, both Minnesota and New York, are seeking to file state legislation protect LGBTQ individuals escaping persecution.
Texas police seized $42,000 from Ameal Woods’ car in 2019 when his car was stopped and searched. Texas authorities say they have the right to keep it under civil forfeiture statutes, but a class-action lawsuit argues that such searches erode Fourth Amendment rights ― and produce loss of respect for law enforcement.
Law enforcement needs careful guidelines to ensure the sophisticated counterterrorism surveillance tools developed in the aftermath of the New York attacks are not abused in daily police work. The UK might offer one model.