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Texas Requires Convict to Register as Sex Offender After Serving His Time for Car Theft, No Sex Crime Committed.

by Jo Ellen Nott

On September 16, 2022, attorneys from the Civil Rights Clinic of the Georgetown University Law Center filed a complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief against Governor Greg Abbott (R) and the Texas Department of Safety in the case of Rohn M. Weatherly. Texas retroactively adjusted Weatherly’s ...

Autistic Capitol Rioter Receives Probation, Not Prison, for His Participation in the January 6 Riot

by Jo Ellen Nott

On October 26, 2022, defendant Nicholas Rodean was sentenced to 240 days of home confinement for his participation in the January 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol in Washington, D.C.  Rodean, 29, had been convicted in July 2022 of a felony and six misdemeanors in conjunction ...

Maryland’s AG to Review 100 In-Custody Deaths After Chief Medical Examiner’s Testimony at George Floyd Trial Prompts 400 Colleagues to Question His Work

by Jo Ellen Nott

On October 20, 2022, a little over a year after it was convened, the seven-member Audit Design Team released its report with the recommendation to re-review 100 in-custody deaths and autopsies in Maryland. The team was convened after 400 medical experts raised concerns about Dr. David ...

Equitable Criminal Sentencing Technology Makes History in Alachua County, Florida

by Jo Ellen Nott

On September 27, 2022, Alachua County in north central Florida made history by funding equitable sentencing software for Florida’s Eighth Judicial Circuit.  This makes the Eighth the first Florida judicial circuit to take an historic step forward to improve its case management system and plea-bargaining ...

Kansas Cop Allowed to Keep His License After Being Fired for Hog Tying and Tasing an Autistic Foster Child

by Jo Ellen Nott

On February 23, 2022, Jackson County Sheriff’s Deputy Matthew Honas “used excessive force multiple times” on a 12-year-old autistic boy who was running away from foster care.  The Kansas Commission on Peace Officers’ Standards and Training (“KCPOST”) officially reprimanded Honas on August 22, 2022, but did ...

No Qualified Immunity for Colorado Cop Who Killed a Puppy in Empty Parking Lot

by Jo Ellen Nott

On September 21, 2022, United States District Judge Raymond P. Moore denied qualified immunity to defendant Matthew Grashorn, a Loveland, Colorado, policer officer who shot a family pet seconds after being called to an empty parking lot to investigate an allegation of dumpster tampering.   

Police ...

LA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva Continues to Threaten and Intimidate Critics Who Question How He Handles His Gang-Infested Sheriff’s Department

by Jo Ellen Nott

Current Los Angeles County sheriff Alex Villanueva has done nothing to clean up rampant gang activity within the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department (“LASD”) since being elected to the post in 

2018. Despite his campaign promises to purge the LASD of gangs, not only has Villanueva protected the ...

Colorado Female Suspect Hit by Freight Train While Sitting in Cop Car

by Jo Ellen Nott

On September 16, 2022, 22-year-old Yareni Rios Gonzalez of Greeley, Colorado, was struck by a train in Platteville while sitting detained in the back seat of a patrol car that inexplicably had been left on the railroad tracks of a train crossing.  Rios Gonzalez had been ...

Federal Judge Rules Arizona Law Making It Illegal to Film Cops Within 8 Feet Is Unnecessary

by Jo Ellen Nott

Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge John J. Tuci issued a temporary injunction to halt recently passed HB 2319 writing “the Court fails to see how the presence of a person recording a video near an officer interferes with the officer’s activities.”

In his ruling, Tuci ...

A Drunk Off-Duty Long Island Cop Seriously Injured a Two-Year-Old. It Took Newsday Reporting to Expose his Department’s Latest Cover-Up

by Jo Ellen Nott

The cover-up of a drunk off-duty Suffolk County PD officer rear-ending a dad and his two small sons is the latest in a series of six case histories that Newsday has brought to the public eye since December 2021. The evening newspaper is uncovering how Long ...

 

 

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