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Articles by Jo Ellen Nott

DNA Databases Can Threaten the Privacy of Individuals Whose Profiles Are Stored in Them, Yet They Remain a Powerful Tool for Law Enforcement

by Jo Ellen Nott

On December 30, 2023, police arrested Bryan Christopher Kohberger at his parents’ home in Pennsylvania for the savage stabbing and murder of four University of Idaho students in November. Law enforcement sources report that DNA evidence obtained from a public genealogy database linked the slayings to ...

State Attorneys General Fear New FedEx and UPS Shipping Policies Will Allow the Feds to Bypass Warrant Requirements by Creating a Private Gun Registry

by Jo Ellen Nott

On November 29, 2022, Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen sent a letter to the CEOs of FedEx and UPS asking them to explain new policies the shipping giants have implemented to track and record firearms purchases.  Knudsen and 17 fellow attorneys general want to understand if ...

Tampa Police Chief Resigns After Caught Flashing Her Badge and Sense of Entitlement During Traffic Stop, Asking Cop if He Knew Who She Is

by Jo Ellen Nott

On November 12, 2022, the former police chief of Tampa, Florida, and her husband decided to ride out in their golf cart to pick up a take-out meal in their affluent suburb of Oldsmar, located on Tampa Bay.  It was a decision Mary O’Connor would come ...

Pennsylvania’s Marijuana Pardon Project Had the Potential to Help Thousands but Fell Short

by Jo Ellen Nott

On December 1, 2022, the Pennsylvania Board of Pardons made decisions on the 2,600 applications it received under Democratic Governor Tom Wolf’s PA Marijuana Pardon Project available during September 2022. The program’s aim was a “one-time, large-scale pardoning project for people with select minor, non-violent marijuana ...

San Francisco Board of Supervisors Approve Use of Killer Robots in Increasingly Militarized Police Department

by Jo Ellen Nott

On November 29, 2022, the city of San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors approved the use of killer robots for law enforcement.  The San Francisco Police Department had previously petitioned for permission to deploy robots to kill suspects that law enforcement considers posing “a sufficient threat to ...

Hundreds of Convictions Dismissed in NYC Due to Crooked Cops

by Jo Ellen Nott

Public defenders and advocacy groups in New York City sent letters of concern to the city’s five district attorneys in 2021 about police testimony and investigations dating back several decades. The letters referenced cases in which the arresting officers’ criminal misconduct unknown at the time tainted ...

Missouri Legalizes Recreational Marijuana

by Jo Ellen Nott

On November 8, 2022, voters in Missouri passed a ballot initiative legalizing cannabis for recreational use after having approved marijuana for medical use four years earlier. Amendment 3, or Legal Missouri 2022, passed with 53% voter support. The medical marijuana initiative passed with 65% of the ...

Florida Crackdown Against Mostly Non-Existent Voter Fraud Has Ex-Felons Afraid to Vote or Cowered by Eligibility Requirements

by Jo Ellen Nott

On August 18, 2022, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) announced that his new election and security unit had arrested and was charging 20 people across the state with voting illegally in the 2020 election.  Not surprisingly, the group was mostly comprised of Black man who had ...

Three Former Pennsylvania Cops Plead Guilty in Tragic Shooting Death of 8-Year-old Girl

by Jo Ellen Nott

On November 11, 2022, three former Sharon Park police officers pleaded guilty to lesser charges in the death of an eight-year-old girl killed in the crossfire between them and two teenagers after a high school football game in August of 2021. The cops each pleaded guilty ...

DOJ: Unlawful Snitching Program Run by the Orange County, California, DA’s Office and Sheriff’s Department Compromised Unknown Number of Convictions

by Jo Ellen Nott

The U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) issued a bombshell report on October 13, 2022, revealing that the Orange County District Attorney’s Office and the Orange County Sheriff’s Department “systematically violated criminal defendants’ Sixth Amendment right to counsel and Fourteenth Amendment right to due process of law” ...

 

 

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