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...
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...
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...
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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The federal government is close to approving contactless fingerprinting, NextGov reports:
Want to learn more about the secretive military agency that, according to author Annie Jacobsen, serves as "The Pentagon's Brain"? Hear her speak on her new DARPA history at a free and open to the public book event in Cambridge on September 23, 2015 at 7pm.
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There’s a remarkable statement buried at the bottom of Boston Globe columnist Kevin Cullen’s farewell to the soon-departing special agent in charge of the Boston FBI office, Vince Lisi. According to the law enforcement friendly Cullen, Lisi was uncharacteristically open during their...
