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Vague language in the state's framework for spending its opioid settlement money leaves the door wide open for law enforcement spending. Boulder County used a sliver of its funds to expand its phone-hacking capabilities, tools local officials say are critical for combatting drug trafficking. Critics point to abuses nationally and globally, and say the technology is an unchecked expansion of police power.

Boulder County used a sliver of its opioid settlement funds to expand its phone-hacking capabilities, tools local officials say are critical for combatting drug trafficking.

Ahead of a powerful storm, weather warnings have been issued for much of Maine.

Report details widespread illegal extraction of smartphone data by US law enforcement A report published in October by a nonprofit technology rights organization has revealed that thousands of smartphones are searched by law enforcement every day across the US, many of them without a warrant and in violation of the Fourth Amendment’s guarantee against unreasonable searches and seizures. In the report entitled, “Mass Extraction: The Widespread Power of U.S. Law Enforcement to Search Mobile Phones,” the group Upturn Toward Justice in Technology studied the use of mobile device forensic to...

As winds continue to whip through the Santa Clarita Valley, firefighters are battling another brush fire in Canyon Country where structures may be threatened. Los Angeles County Fire Department personnel responded to reports of a brush fire on the 28100 block of Whites Canyon Road, near Todd Longshore Park, just after 2:30 p.m., according to spokesman Chris Thomas. “Units just got on (the) scene a few minutes ago,” Thomas said at 2:50 p.m. “(They’re) getting structure protection in place because they do see structures possibly threatened.” There has not yet been a size up of the bl...