Tag Archives: law enforcement
License plate readers add to a database on your behavior
License plate readers have proliferated across the country. But cities and states are all over the map on how long they hold information they collect and with whom they share it. http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/bits/2013/07/17/policies-on-license-plate-readers-vary-widely-says-a-c-l-u/ That is according to a new report from the American Civil Liberties Union, which collated license plate reader policies from nearly 300 law […]
ICE confinement amounts to abuse
The United States has come under sharp criticism at home and abroad for relying on solitary confinement in its prisons more than any other democratic nation in the world. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/24/us/immigrants-held-in-solitary-cells-often-for-weeks.html?ref=us&_r=0 Immigration and Customs Enforcement places its jailed immigrants in solitary, this practice is startling because those detainees are being held on civil, not criminal, charges. […]
Dirty Babylon 