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Another public official is attempting to make the public records request process even more aggravating and expensive than it already...

Fri, Feb 12th 2021 9:28am — Tim Cushing In June of last year -- as protests over police brutality occurred all over the nation -- Denver, Colorado rolled out a program that combined common sense with a slight "defunding" of its police department. It decided calls that might be better handled by social workers and mental health professionals should be handled by… social workers and mental health professionals. The citys STAR (Support Team Assistance Response) team was given the power to ha...

Mon, Feb 8th 2021 7:59pm — Tim Cushing For some reason, we, the people, keep having to shell out cash to employ a lot of unreasonable law enforcement officers. Weve already seen some federal courts respond to violent law enforcement responses to the mere presence of journalists and legal observers during protests. The targeting of non-participants by law enforcement has been met with injunctions and harsh words for the officers participating in these attacks. Much of whats been covered here d...

Mon, Feb 8th 2021 1:32pm — Tim Cushing Never forget the IoT device you invite into your home may become the states witness. Thats one of the unfortunate conclusions that can be drawn from Amazons latest transparency report. Amazon has its own digital assistant, Alexa. On top of that, it has its acquisitions. One of its more notable gets is Ring. Ring is most famous for its doorbells -- something that seems innocuous until you examine the attached camera and the companys 2,000 partnerships wit...

Clearview has screwed with the wrong people. The reprehensible facial recognition AI company that sells access to its database of...

Fri, Feb 5th 2021 12:12pm — Tim Cushing Another day, another multi-billion dollar defamation lawsuit. And like the other lawsuits filed over frothy falsehoods that emerged from the spittle-flecked lips of Trump lawyers and supporters, this one also targets people who definitely should have known better than to engage in the speech they did. Smartmatic -- a voting tech company whose name was dragged into the mud by a number of Fox News personalities and Trump legal team members -- is suing thr...

Fri, Feb 5th 2021 9:34am — Tim Cushing An ongoing federal lawsuit is challenging the CBPs decision to turn supposed border control efforts into easy drug busts for local cops. A New Hampshire man is challenging the checkpoints set up by the CBP nearly 100 miles from any border in New Hampshire. The CBP apparently decided to spend a couple of years camped out on I-93 (from 2017 to 2019), 90 miles away from the nearest border. The 90 mile marker is significant. Anything within 100 miles of a US...

Wed, Feb 3rd 2021 1:44pm — Tim Cushing The expiring breaths of a sensationalistic failure are emanating from a Florida sex trafficking investigations soon-to-be corpse. A massive sting operation -- built on surreptitious recordings of massage parlor employees and their customers -- ended with nothing more than a bunch of solicitation charges. The alleged massive sex trafficking operation was actually just a bunch of consensual activity, with massage parlor employees free to come and go as the...

Tue, Feb 2nd 2021 3:37pm — Tim Cushing How does something horrific become an epidemic? Well, if you ignore any problem long enough, its pretty much guaranteed to get worse. Early last year, the DOJ released its report [PDF] on New Jerseys Edna Mahan Correctional Facility. The facility houses around 400 female inmates and is overseen by a little over 400 employees. Years of complaints from inmates prompted the DOJ to open an investigation in 2018. It found a pattern of rights violations, point...

During the runup to the presidential election, through the election, past the election, past the Electoral College vote, past the...