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NYPD Cops Sue to Hide Database on Police Misconduct. Communities United for Police Reform Sues Back.
July 28, 2020, New York – Today, Communi
ALPR Incorrectly Snags Privacy Activist.
Defending Rights & Dissent and the Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights are civil liberties groups with a long history of standing up for the right to engage in political expression.
The 2020 Republican Convention Will Be in Charlotte. Local Activists Are Preparing Now to Protect the Community.
They want to pass the Civil Liberties Protection Act of 2018.
California Enacts Law Protecting Consumer Privacy, But There is Still a Ways to Go
The 2018 California Consumer Privacy Act is a law that will require technology corporations, such as Google and Facebook, to drastically alter their business models regarding data collection and privacy regulations. Despite the bill’s strong language, it has many shortcomings.
In Light of Recent Massacre of Palestinian Protesters, It’s Time for US Police to End Exchanges of Worst Practices With Human Rights Abusers
Although Defending Rights & Dissent is a domestic civil liberties, we recognize the threat allowing police departments to train with known human rights abusers. US police are frequently criticized for acting like an occupying army. Training with an actual occupying army will only further this mindset amongst law enforcement.
Demanding Transparency About Police Use of Surveillance Technology
It seems that every week brings news of another local police department adopting another new technology to monitor our words, movement, or relationships online and off.
Are JTTFs Protecting Us Against Threats, or Threatening Our Civil Rights & Liberties?
Since the 9/11 attacks, the United States government has poured money into counter-terrorism efforts. One place in which they have spent billions of dollars is the network of 119 Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTFs) located across the country.
Oakland Privacy Scores Another Victory
Last night, the Oakland City Council voted to formally end all law enforcement cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and its parent agency Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
DRAD Nominates Oakland Privacy for FAC Free Speech & Open Government Award
The activists of Oakland Privacy are a bulwark against government abuses of the First and Fourth Amendment in the Bay Area and the state of California. The group is also an inspiration and model for grassroots activists across the country. They deserve this award!
Activists Work for Surveillance Transparency in Cambridge
Residents are encouraged to turnout at the City Council meeting next week to stand up and speak up for surveillance transparency and oversight.
Resistance Cities Coalition Grows
What do communities of color, environmentalists, animal rights activists, civil rights activists, immigrant communities, Muslims, the labor movement, and a host of others all have in common?
Are Your Police Willing Foot Soldiers in Trump’s FBI?
State and local agencies participate in JTTFs under secret agreements and they operate under the direction, and usually under the rules and guidelines, of the FBI.
Victory for Rockville’s Fostering Community Trust Ordinance: Lessons Learned
After nearly four months of advocacy, supporters of the Fostering Community Trust ordinance erupted in applause after a majority of City Councilmembers raised their hands in favor of the measure, which enshrines an unwritten Rockville City Police (RPD) policy into law.
Fostering Community Trust in Rockville
On June 19, the Maryland city of
Safe Coalition NC Wins Grassroots Victory As City Council Adopts New Standards for Civilian Review Board Members
Safe Coalition NC scored an important victory in Charlotte, North Carolina. This Monday the city council voted unanimously to accept the coalition’s proposed administrative revisions to the Citizens Review Board
