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Which surveillance technologies are California police using? Are they buying access to your location data? If so, how much are they paying? These are basic questions the Electronic Frontier Foundation is trying to answer in a new lawsuit called Pen-Link v. County of San Joaquin Sheriff’s Office. EFF filed a motion in California Superior Court to join—or intervene in—an existing lawsuit to get access to documents we requested. The private company Pen-Link sued the San Joaquin Sheriff’s Office […]
In the 1970s, the discovery of the Tennessee snail darter in the Tellico River was used to halt completion of the Tellico Dam under the Endangered Species Act (a tale many law students learn in TVA v. Hill). The dam was only completed after Congress expressly exempted it from the ESA’s dictates. It has long been understood that the snail darter was the right species at the right time, as it gave dam opponents a powerful legal weapon. Now, […]
Houston police officer Ricardo Corral is not legally liable for crashing his police cruiser into another vehicle, the Texas Supreme Court ruled last week. After all, he was in hot pursuit of someone apparently considered a dangerous villain: an adult man who sought to pay a consenting adult woman for sex. During a prostitution sting in 2019, Corral “made a wide turn from the middle lane,” per Houston Public Media. He subsequently crashed into a truck containing two […]
Mark Thornton looks forward to 2025—and a little bit backwards at 2024—and projects what we might see in the coming new year.
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