by Kevin Bliss
The Northern California Regional Intelligence Center (“NCRIC”) contracted with surveillance and data mining giant Planatir, cofounded by billionaire and PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel, for services in synthesizing information gathered from databases in hospitals, banks, police departments, and other locations into a comprehensive, understandable format for instant use ...
by Kevin Bliss
Former Brick, New Jersey, attorney John Koufos lost his job as a high-profile prosecutor when he seriously injured someone in a car accident while driving drunk. He was sentenced to six years in jail.
After an early release, Koufos earned his way to executive director of the ...
by Kevin Bliss
In response to a lawsuit, District Court Judge Audrey Fleissig of the Eastern District of Missouri ruled in favor of four detainees in St. Louis’ City Workhouse, forbidding St. Louis’ “jail system from detaining people for weeks on the sole basis of an inability to afford bail,” ...
by Kevin Bliss
The Houston Police Department (“HPD”) is being accused of sloppy investigations surrounding the details of a warrant executed in January 2019, which resulted in the deaths of homeowners Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas in a botched no-knock drug raid. In addition, four officers were shot, and one ...
by Kevin Bliss
Prison reform advocates contend that parole does more to perpetuate recidivism than it does to monitor positive rehabilitation into society. Columbia University’s Justice Lab prepared a report in 2017 that stated that New York City’s jail population had more people being held for parole violations than the ...
by Kevin Bliss
The Oakland Police Department (“OPD”) has been under federal order to complete a comprehensive reform program since 2003 because of repeated allegations of excessive use of force.
Retired New York Police Chief Robert Warshaw, who owns a consent decree oversight firm and has been appointed independent monitor, ...
by Kevin Bliss
The ACLU, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Georgetown Center on Privacy and Technology, and the Innocence Project have teamed up to battle the Florida court system over the constitutional right to confront a defendant’s accuser when that accuser is a computer algorithm.
Willie Lynch, a black Florida ...
by Kevin Bliss
Former police officers Charlie Dayoub and Raul Fernandez were sentenced on October 17, 2018, to the federal maximum of one year in prison for falsifying arrest affidavits.
Dayoub expected only eight months of home confinement and Fernandez, one year of probation, after their cooperation assisted in securing ...
by Kevin Bliss
Law enforcement agencies across the nation are moving toward adopting more genetic genealogy investigative techniques and training from genealogy experts apparently without first considering the implications such practices have on civil rights or any potential abuses.
Databases at consumer DNA collection companies, such as GEDmatch, FamilyTreeDNA, ...
by Kevin Bliss
District attorney offices across the nation are adopting blacklists of officers whose testimony in court is untrustworthy. Referred to as “do not call lists,” “exclusion lists,” or “Brady lists,” D.A.s have stated that they will not prosecute cases or accept search warrant requests from officers on ...
