×
You've used up your 3 free articles for this month. Subscribe today.
Orwellian Fusion Centers Are Watching You
Loaded on April 15, 2021
by Casey Bastian
published in Criminal Legal News
May, 2021, page 35
Filed under:
Police State-Surveillance.
Location:
United States of America.
by Casey J. Bastian
Following 9/11, America’s law enforcement apparatus seems to have metastasized from a necessary component in a civilized society to a cancer-like growth on the body of personal liberty. American citizens are supposed to retain unalienable rights under the First Amendment – to peaceably assemble, speak freely ...
Full article and associated cases available to subscribers.
As a digital subscriber to Criminal Legal News, you can access full text and downloads for this and other premium content.
Already a subscriber? Login
More from this issue:
- No-Knock Warrants Leave Trail of Terror, Property Damage, and Deaths, by David Reutter
- A Primer on Overcriminalization, by David Reutter
- Eighth Circuit Vacates Habeas Denial, Remands to Determine Whether ‘Martinez Exception’ Excused Procedural Default by State Prisoner, by Dale Chappell
- Seventh Circuit: Federal Habeas Relief for State Prisoner Due to Counsel’s Failure to Raise No-Causation Defense, by Dale Chappell
- Federal Habeas Corpus: Filing Procedures, by Dale Chappell
- The Parole App Trap, by Jayson Hawkins
- Fourth Circuit: Police Request for ID Outside Valid Terry Stop Unconstitutional, by Anthony Accurso
- Seventh Circuit Vacates Sentence Where District Court Improperly Imposed Leadership Enhancement, by Douglas Ankney
- New Jersey Police Union Contracts Laden With Financial Largesse, by Casey Bastian
- D.C. Circuit Highlights Racial Disparity Concerns With First Step Act After District Court Erroneously Denies Relief, by Dale Chappell
- D.C. Department of Forensic Sciences Firearms Examination Unit Under Fire, by Derek Gilna
- Seventh Circuit Exercises Supervisory Powers in Reversing District Court’s Judgment Revoking Supervised Release, by Douglas Ankney
- Seventh Circuit: District Court Retains Jurisdiction When Habeas Petitioner Moves to Prison Outside of District, by Dale Chappell
- Iowa Supreme Court Announces Brady Standard Applies to Motion for New Trial Based on Withheld Exculpatory Medical Records, by Douglas Ankney
- Abuse of Civil Asset Forfeiture Laws Prompts Class Action Lawsuit, by Casey Bastian
- Michigan State Police Reverse on Use of Messaging App That Can Evade FOIA Requests, by Douglas Ankney
- Tech Company Enables Surveillance, by Jayson Hawkins
- Wyoming Supreme Court: District Court Abused Discretion by Granting State’s Dismissal of Charges Without Prejudice and Refiling to Gain Tactical Advantage, Remands for Dismissal With Prejudice, by Douglas Ankney
- Fourth Circuit: Employment Restriction for Supervised Release Overbroad and Impermissible Delegation of Power to Probation, by Dale Chappell
- Texas Court of Criminal Appeals: Good Faith Exception Inapplicable to Unsworn Search Warrant, by Anthony Accurso
- Arkansas Supreme Court: Unborn Child Not a ‘Person’ Under Sentencing Enhancement Scheme, by Anthony Accurso
- New Jersey Appellate Court Holds Defendant Entitled to Source Code of Novel Probabilistic Genotyping Software Upon Showing of Particularized Need, by Douglas Ankney
- Orwellian Fusion Centers Are Watching You, by Casey Bastian
- Utah Supreme Court: Appeal of Plea in Justice Court Doesn’t Vacate Judgment, by David Reutter
- California Court of Appeal: Prisoners Are Not Required to Serve ‘Thompson Terms’ After Grant of Parole Under Elderly Parole Program, by Douglas Ankney
- North Carolina Supreme Court Reverses Embezzlement Convictions for Failure to Hold Competency Hearing After Mid-Trial Suicide Attempt, Involuntary Commitment, by Matthew Clarke
- New York Court of Appeals Rejects Federal Jurisprudence Allowing Searches of Vehicles Based on Warrants Authorizing Searches of ‘Premises’, by Douglas Ankney
- Surveillance and the City, by Jayson Hawkins
- Fifth Circuit: Anonymous Tip Didn’t Provide Reasonable Suspicion to Conduct Investigatory Stop, by Douglas Ankney
- Ohio Supreme Court: Imposing Two Punishments for One Quantity of Mixture of Heroin and Fentanyl Violates Double Jeopardy, by Douglas Ankney
- Illinois Study: Crime Rate not Tied to Prison Population Levels, by Kevin Bliss
- Ninth Circuit: State’s Forced Medication Order Was Properly Challenged Under Federal Habeas Corpus, by Dale Chappell
- Tracking Browser History, by Jayson Hawkins
- Ninth Circuit Announces Police Inserting Key in Car Door to Determine Vehicle Ownership Constitutes Search Overruling Circuit Precedent, by Anthony Accurso
- All Bark but No Bite, by Douglas Ankney
- Socially Unacceptable New York Cops, by Edward Lyon
- News in Brief
- New Jersey Supreme Court Announces Adoption of Framework for Evaluating Discovery Motions Challenging Warrant Affidavits Based on Unidentified Confidential Informants, by Douglas Ankney
More from Casey Bastian:
- Policing the Vulnerable: The Criminalization of Disability, May 15, 2025
- Examining Pro-Prosecution Bias in the Judiciary: Unconscious Biases of a Prosecutorial Background, Feb. 15, 2025
- The Rise of Mass Supervision: From Rehabilitative Alternative to Shadow Carceral State, Oct. 1, 2024
- Demonstrable Remorse, Psychiatric Diagnoses, and Alternatives to Incarceration, Aug. 1, 2024
- Minnesota Sex Offender Program: The Indefinite Detention of the Reviled, Aug. 1, 2024
- The 153 Exonerations in 2023 Include 19 Resulting From Threats or Sentences of Death, July 15, 2024
- Four Dead in One Month in San Bernardino County Jails, $3,232,500 in Settlements Paid So Far, March 1, 2024
- Dangerous Encounters: Interactions Between Autistic Individuals and Law Enforcement, Dec. 15, 2023
- U.S. Sentencing Commission Publishes Compassionate Release Datafile for Fiscal Years 2020-2022, Oct. 1, 2023
- Two Dead and $4.675 Million Paid After Deputies’ Alleged Misconduct in California’s Sonoma County, Sept. 15, 2023
More from these topics:
- Facial Recognition at the Border: CBP’s Push to Scan Every Car Passenger Sparks Privacy Concerns, May 15, 2025. Police State-Surveillance, Electronic Surveillance, Privacy Act/Rights, Searches - Border Stops/Searches, Immigration Law/Offenses.
- Car Subscriptions: Another Means of Mass Surveillance by Law Enforcement, May 15, 2025. Vehicle Searches, Internet, Police State-Surveillance, Electronic Surveillance.
- Welcome to 2025: Where Your Freedoms Go to Die, April 15, 2025. Government Misconduct, Police State-Surveillance.
- D.C. Police Continue Heavy Investment in Social Media Monitoring, April 15, 2025. Internet, Police State-Surveillance, Electronic Surveillance, Social Media.
- ICE’s Expansive Surveillance Tool Monitors Hundreds of Websites and Apps, April 15, 2025. Police State-Surveillance, Enforcement of Immigration Laws, Electronic Surveillance, Immigration Law/Offenses, Social Media.
- Crowdsourcing a Map to Track License Plate Surveillance, April 15, 2025. Traffic stop, Police State-Surveillance.
- Questionable Retail Theft Panic Fuels More Mass Surveillance and Police Militarization, April 15, 2025. Police Misconduct, Police State-Surveillance, Electronic Surveillance, Fraud and Theft Loss.
- The FBI’s Encrypted Phone Sting, April 15, 2025. Cell Searches, FBI, Police State-Surveillance, Electronic Surveillance.
- NYPD Responds to 911 Calls with Drones, April 15, 2025. Computer Searches, Police State-Surveillance, Use of Drones.
- No Opened Envelopes: Hawai’i Prisons Get New Mail Scanning Technology, April 1, 2025. Mail Regulations, Police State-Surveillance, Antipsychotic Drugs/Forced Medication, Drug Laws/Offenses.
