For the most part, it's hard to get too enthusiastic about various Internet campaigns that try to right the wrongs of this world, particularly the ones working on online privacy. But a new one started two weeks ago is really worth watching. It's called, ironically enough, Stop Watching Us. This o... Read more...
Will These College Football Players Wear Orange Jumpsuits? Florida Atlantic University is about to let the GEO Group, a notorious private prison company, slap its name on a new football stadium. Don't allow that to happen! GEO has a shameful record of human rights violations, abuse, and neglect a... Read more...
Eight Detroit-area public school students returning to classes this week are plaintiffs against a school system they say has failed them. Their families and the American Civil Liberties Union say that the Highland Park school system has denied the students the right to learn to read, and th... Read more...
A court-appointed monitor will oversee the use of "stop and frisk" searches by city police, a high-profile part of the mayor's efforts to combat violent crime, according to a settlement agreement announced Tuesday. Authorities also will take additional steps to make sure the stops are only ma... Read more...
"More African American men are in prison or jail, on probation or parole than were enslaved in 1850, before the Civil War began," Michelle Alexander told a standing room only house at the Pasadena Main Library this past Wednesday, the first of many jarring points she made in a riveting prese... Read more...
The Justice Department Inspector General (IG) discovered improper FBI spying investigations were frequently opened based upon “factually weak” justifications. The FBI classified some investigations relating to nonviolent civil disobedience under its "Acts of Terrorism" classification. People a... Read more...
Logan airport security just got more up close and personal as federal screeners launched a more aggressive palms-first, slide-down body search technique that has renewed the debate over privacy vs. safety. The new procedure - already being questioned by the ACLU - replaces the Transportation Se... Read more...
Two years ago, when the FBI was stymied by a band of armed robbers known as the "Scarecrow Bandits" that had robbed more than 20 Texas banks, it came up with a novel method of locating the thieves. FBI agents obtained logs from mobile phone companies corresponding to what their cellular towers ... Read more...