Texas State Police Gear Up for Expansion of Surveillance Tech(texasobserver.org)

89 points by OhMeadhbh 2 years ago | 65 comments

Texas Is Arming Mexico's Gunmen(texasobserver.org)

19 points by ivanleoncz 2 years ago | 6 comments

CISA’s acting head uploaded sensitive files into public version of ChatGPT(politico.com)

154 points by rurp 9 months ago | 224 comments

The FBI Has Formed a National Database to Track and Prevent “Swatting”(nbcnews.com)

60 points by andrewl 3 years ago | 17 comments

Texas Passes Ban on DEI Offices and Tenure Reform at Public Universities(thetexan.news)

49 points by g42gregory 3 years ago | 20 comments

Ex-congressman convicted of insider trading before T-Mobile merger with Sprint(nbcnews.com)

71 points by perihelions 3 years ago | 24 comments

Texas police department ordered to close for failing to provide public benefit(dallasnews.com)

30 points by Danhale93 1 month ago | 10 comments

Dallas Morning News article reporting that Trinidad, Texas, about 70 miles southeast of Dallas, was ordered to close its police department for failing to benefit the public.

Police cannot seize property indefinitely after an arrest, federal court rules(reason.com)

773 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 385 comments

Reason article reporting that the D.C. Circuit ruled police cannot hold seized property indefinitely after an arrest, calling it unconstitutional.

CEO of data privacy company Onerep.com founded dozens of people-search firms(krebsonsecurity.com)

549 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 142 comments

KrebsOnSecurity investigation finding that the CEO of data-removal service Onerep.com, operating from Belarus and Cyprus, founded dozens of people-search sites.

California law enforcement misused state databases more than 7k times in 2023(eff.org)

520 points by hn_acker 1 year ago | 261 comments

EFF Deeplinks article reporting that California law enforcement agencies misused state databases more than 7,000 times in 2023.

Cops still take more stuff from people than burglars do(thewhyaxis.substack.com)

332 points by wahnfrieden 3 years ago | 135 comments

Substack post by Christopher Ingraham arguing that US police civil asset forfeiture seizures exceed the value of property stolen by burglars.

Texas city demands $2M for public records on Flock usage(arstechnica.com)

194 points by 01-_- 20 days ago | 29 comments

Ars Technica article on a Texas city demanding $2 million for public records about police use of Flock license plate cameras amid growing backlash.