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Posts about pacer written by Tim Cushing

The federal judiciary system has pretty much blown off taxpayers' (and legislators') complaints about PACER for years. The online system that was supposed to make access to court documents fair and equitable is instead a paywalled, outdated heap of barely functioning junk that charges citizens $0.10/page for questionable search results from PACER's broken search engine.…

Posts about smart tvs written by Karl Bode and Tim Cushing

Posts about courts written by Tim Cushing, Mike Masnick, and Glyn Moody

Well, this is ugly. Lots of states and cities have considered bail reform in recent years, given the system's propensity for punishing the poorest people while allowing the more fortunate to buy their way out of jail. The criminal justice system is built on the presumption of innocence -- something that's often ignored by law…

Field drug tests are notoriously unreliable. False positives abound. But law enforcement agencies still use them. First and foremost, they use them because no court, policy, or legislation has told them they can't. But they also use them because they're cheap (~$2/per), portable, and, most importantly, prone to producing false positives that allow cops to…

Posts about police reforms written by Tim Cushing

Posts about police misconduct written by Tim Cushing

The government of India continues to pretend it's a democracy while doing everything it can to satisfy an elected leader who now apparently has aspirations to become "dictator for life." Under Prime Minister Narendra Mohdi, India has moved away from its democratic ideals and closer to the ideals held by one of its closest neighbors,…

Posts about bail reform written by Tim Cushing