Conventional wisdom tells us federal courts will protect our rights better than state courts. This is why virtually everything is turned into a federal case. But two recent cases relating to cell phone search warrants reveal this isn't always the case.
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Last week, the Detroit City Council narrowly approved an expansion of the city's controversial ShotSpotter surveillance technology. But instead of using COVID stimulus money as initially planned, the funding will come out of the police department's own budget.
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Those who drafted the Bill of Rights recognized that human rights are pre-political. They precede the existence of the government. They come from our humanity, and, in the case of privacy, they are reinforced by our ownership or legal occupancy of property.
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While federal agencies have increasingly become a de facto standing army, a number of federal programs have been doing the same with local police for decades.
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The new law contains a big loophole that was inserted in June under pressure from San Diego Police Chief Dave Nisleit. The council voted 5-4 to include new language that exempts police officers working on federal task forces from the oversight and transparency requirements.
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The Department of Homeland Security has collected reams of location data from a private vendor in order to track people across the United States.
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According to a recent report by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), data brokers harvest location data from mobile apps and then sell it to government agencies including state and local law enforcement, ICE, the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense.
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The capitulation by the city council reveals the power of the national surveillance state and how local law enforcement feeds into it.
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According to the Supreme Court, the legality of NSA mass surveillance can't even be legally challenged. This was the message the Court sent when it refused to take up Jewel v. NSA, allowing an appellate court decision to stand.
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The new law prohibits the Arizona State Board of Pharmacy from releasing any information contained in the prescription drug monitoring program database (PDMP) to local, state, or federal law enforcement agencies without a warrant. Under the old law, the board could release such data if a law enforcement agency stated in writing that the information was "necessary" for an open investigation.
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