Millions of job seekers’ fingerprints will now be searched for criminal investigations, says FBI
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Choctaw medicine man, civil rights activist dies after being booked into historically infamous Mississippi jail
Just weeks after Sandra Bland died in a Texas jail cell after having been arrested during a traffic stop, another activist is dead in eerily similar circumstances. The day after Bland died, long-time Choctaw civil rights activist Rexdale Henry was found dead...
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DEA inspector general report shows officials didn’t want to look too closely at its thousands of confidential informants
MuckRock’s Shawn Musgrave reports: A scathing audit released yesterday by the Justice Department’s inspector general lists a slew of issues with the DEA’s management of confidential sources. Auditors found that DEA brass reauthorized long-term informants after mere seconds of review, and that...
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Urgent: Take action to end rampant government secrecy in Massachusetts
Take action to update the Massachusetts public records law. Transparency is a prerequisite for a functioning democracy. If we don’t know what our government is doing, we have no ability to meaningfully engage or change it. With among the weakest public records...
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The DOJ is investing millions of dollars in research to spy on students at public schools nationwide
The Department of Justice’s National Institute for Justice funds law enforcement research to the tune of tens of millions of dollars each year. The full list of grants, posted each year, is a valuable insight into future of law enforcement trends in...
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Massachusetts has among the worst open records laws in the nation, but not for long
Public records reform in Massachusetts has moved an important step in the right direction, as the Judiciary Joint Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight today forwarded the bill with a positive recommendation. The reform package still faces a number of hurdles...
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New Hampshire library to implement Tor above DHS objections—and how
This is just about my favorite thing ever. pic.twitter.com/7qqSV3snqr
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Coming soon: FBI technology that can read your fingerprints from a mile away
The federal government is close to approving contactless fingerprinting, NextGov reports:
