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Article • September 15, 2023 • from PLN September, 2023
Filed under: Databases, FBI, Police Bias
FBI Crime Report Lacking Data from Police Agencies Serving 25 Percent of U.S. Population by In October 2022, the FBI released its 2021 report titled Crime in the U.S. Published annually for a century, it is considered the gold standard for data on criminal activity in the U.S. However, the …
Article • June 13, 2023
Former FBI Agent and Admitted Russian Spy Found Dead in Federal Prison by Gregory Teixeira by Gregory P. Teixeira  A former FBI agent who was convicted of being one of the most damaging spies in U.S. history, was found dead in his cell on June 5, 2023, at the federal …
Article • April 19, 2019
Washington Officials Violated First Amendment by Removing Prisoner’s Art from Exhibit Due to Criticism by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson A Washington federal court denied state officials’ summary judgment on a claim that they violated a Native American prisoner’s First Amendment rights by prematurely removing his paintings from an art …
Article • February 5, 2019 • from PLN February, 2019
Virginia Jail Officials Indicted on Civil Rights Violations by A Western District of Virginia federal grand jury indicted two former Rockbridge County Regional Jail (RCRJ) officials on charges related to civil rights violations and falsifying documents to obstruct justice. The August 14, 2018 indictment, which was initially sealed, included four …
Article • January 8, 2019 • from PLN January, 2019
Guards Face Federal Charges for Smuggling Drugs, Cell Phones Into Idaho Prisons by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell The FBI arrested seven people, including five Idaho Department of Correction (IDOC) guards, for conspiring to smuggle drugs, tobacco and cell phones into state prisons. In January 2017, an undercover FBI agent …
Publication • 2018
A Report of Investigation of Certain Allegations Relating to Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, U.S. Department of Justice, 2018 Table of Contents I. Introduction and Summary of Findings.................................................... 1 II. Relevant Statutes, Policies, and Practices ................................................ 3 III. A. Lack of Candor ........................................................................... 3 B. FBI Policies and Practices …
Article • April 20, 2018
FBI Training Manuals, Guidelines May Be Exempt from FOIA Disclosure by Matthew Clarke by Matthew Clarke On February 1, 2018, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that generalized law enforcement records such as training manuals and guidelines could fall under Exemption 7 of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), …
Brief • February 1, 2018
ACLU Northern California v. FBI, CA, Opinion-Appeal, Freedom Of Information Act, 2018 FOR PUBLICATION UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA; ASIAN LAW CAUCUS; SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN, Plaintiffs-Appellees, No. 16-15178 D.C. No. 3:10-cv-03759-RS OPINION v. FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, Defendant-Appellant. …
Article • December 14, 2017
Filed under: War on Terror, Terrorism, FBI
D.C. Circuit Holds Bivens Not Available for Extraterritorial Incidents by On October 23, 2015, the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit held that a man who had been detained, interrogated and tortured for four months in three African countries by and with the consent of FBI agents could not …
Article • November 28, 2017
Report Finds Medical Professionals Facilitated Torture of Alleged Terrorists by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna The Task Force on Preserving Medical Professionalism in National Security Detention Centres issued a report slamming health care professionals voluntarily working with the military and intelligence communities who “[p]articipated in cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment …
Brief • November 22, 2017
Pennsylvania v. Chimiel, PA, Opinion, Flawed Analysis, 2017 [J-21-2017] IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA EASTERN DISTRICT SAYLOR, C.J., BAER, TODD, DONOHUE, DOUGHERTY, WECHT, MUNDY, JJ. COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, Appellee v. DAVID CHMIEL, Appellant : : : : : : : : : : : No. 726 CAP Appeal from …
Article • August 30, 2017 • from PLN September, 2017
American University Removes Statue of Imprisoned Native American Activist by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna American University, a private college in Washington, D.C., bowed to pressure from a federal law enforcement group and removed a statue of Native American activist and prisoner Leonard Peltier, who was convicted of the 1975 …
Publication • August 3, 2017
Filed under: Police, Racial Profiling, FBI
FBI - Black Identity Extremists Likely Motivated to Target Law Enforcement Officers, 2017 UNCLASSIFIED/ !LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE Intelligence Assessment (U//FOUO) Black Identity Extremists Likely Motivated to Target Law Enforcement Officers 3 August 2017 (U) LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE: The infomiation tllarked (U//LES) in this docwnent is the property of FBI and …
Article • June 9, 2017 • from PLN June, 2017
Former LA County Sheriff to Serve Three Years in Prison by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca was sentenced on May 12, 2017 to three years in federal prison for lying to federal officials investigating allegations of corruption, physical abuse, bribery and misconduct in …
Article • June 2, 2017
Filed under: Databases, FBI
FBI to Overhaul Crime Tracking Program and Encourage Local Agency Cooperation by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton For more than eighty years the FBI has operated the Uniform Crime Report (UCR), which allows law enforcement agencies to report and compile numbers and types of crimes that were reported to them. …
Publication • March 1, 2017
Filed under: Computer Searches, FBI
ACLU: Challenging Government Hacking in Criminal Cases, 2017 CHALLENGING GOVERNMENT HACKING IN CRIMINAL CASES March 2017 CHALLENGING GOVERNMENT HACKING IN CRIMINAL CASES American Civil Liberties Union 125 Broad Street, New York, NY 10004 Electronic Frontier Foundation 815 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA 94109 © 2017 ACLU Foundation © 2017 Electronic …
Widespread Failures at Crime Labs Continue to Plague Criminal Justice System by Derek Gilna Crime labs nationwide continue to face seemingly intractable problems – particularly in terms of unreliable forensic evidence testing and being influenced by law enforcement and prosecutorial bias. Despite efforts at reform, and efforts to implement technological …
Publication • November 17, 2016
Terrorist Watchlist Screening - FBI Has Enhanced Its Use of Information from Firearm and Explosives Background Checks to Support Counterterrorism Efforts, GAO, 2010 United States Government Accountability Office GAO Testimony Before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, U.S. Senate For Release on Delivery Expected at 10:00 a.m. …
“Demons” Push Chris Conover to Suicide 12 Years after Release by Release from prison is a great relief, and that is especially so for wrongfully convicted persons. The future, however, is wrought with difficulties, obstacles, and prejudice. For Chris Conover, it was a burden that overwhelmed him, pushing him to …
Article • September 2, 2016 • from PLN September, 2016
Wrongfully-convicted Former Prisoner Receives $13.2 Million in FBI Hair Analysis Case by Derek Gilna A 55-year-old man who was convicted based upon the now-discredited “science” of forensics hair analysis has been awarded $13.2 million by District of Columbia Superior Court Judge John M. Mott. This was just the latest in …
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