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Article • June 15, 2024 • from CLN June, 2024
Push Notifications Pull to the Forefront by Michael Thompson by Michael Dean Thompson   The convergence of web technologies with handheld computing devices and high-capacity, inexpensive storage has led to a remarkable new era of corporate data collection most people would find shockingly invasive. Criminal Legal News has covered how, …
Article • June 15, 2024 • from CLN June, 2024
Report Finds Inaccurate Field Drug Tests Major Cause of Wrongful Convictions by Matthew Clarke by Matthew T. Clarke   A report published in January 2024 by the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice at the University of Pennsylvania’s Carey School of Law revealed that false positives in presumptive …
Article • June 15, 2024 • from CLN June, 2024
DOJ Creates Database to Track Federal Law Enforcement Officers Accused of Misconduct by Sam Rutherford by Samuel Rutherford   As reported by the Associated Press, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced the creation of a database designed to track serious misconduct complaints against federal law enforcement officers. The purpose of …
Deadly Failures: Preventable Deaths in U.S. Immigration Detention (2024 ACLU, American Oversight, and Physicians for Human Rights) ACLU, AMERICAN OVERSIGHT, AND PHR RESEARCH REPORT Deadly Failures Preventable Deaths in U.S. Immigration Detention AMERICAN OVERSIGHT PHR Physicians for Human Rights Executive Summary 1 ACLU, AMERICAN OVERSIGHT, AND PHR REPORT Deadly Failures …
New Data From BOP Reveals Technical Violations Account for Nearly a Third of First Step Act Recidivism by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott The Council on Criminal Justice (“CCJ”) released a December 2023 update to its original report (August 2023) on the impact of the First Step Act …
Article • May 15, 2024 • from CLN May, 2024
Criminal Justice Reform Becoming a Corporate Priority by David Reutter by David M. Reutter With the rate of Americans who have a felony conviction steadily increasing as a result of the incarcerative state’s policies, corporate entities are experiencing a change of heart towards those with criminal records. In fact, many …
Article • May 15, 2024 • from CLN May, 2024
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
Robotic Police Dogs Being Adopted Across the Country by Michael Thompson by Michael Dean Thompson In 2016, a lone shooter shot 12 Dallas police officers, killing five. Police eventually cornered the man in a parking garage. He had nowhere to go, but after five hours, the cops were eager to …
Electronic Monitoring: An Alternative to Incarceration or a Troubling Extension of Punishment? by David Reutter by David M. Reutter It is often said that life imitates art. When it comes to electronic monitoring (“EM”), your friendly, neighborhood Spiderman was a major influence for the idea to use an electronic device …
Article • April 15, 2024 • from CLN April, 2024
Pharmacies Are Giving Your Prescription Data to Police Without a Warrant by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso Following a congressional investigation, some lawmakers wrote a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) about how the eight largest pharmacy chains provide patient prescription information to police without …
Article • April 15, 2024 • from CLN April, 2024
The FBI’s Rapidly Expanding DNA Database by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso The FBI has amassed over 20 million DNA profiles in its database and has requested Congress double its budget for handling DNA samples “to process the rapidly increasing number of DNA samples collected.” The Combined DNA Index …
‘Trail ’Em, Nail ’Em, and Jail ’Em’: Issues Private Probation and Parole by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott Vince Schiraldi talks private probation and parole in his new book Mass Supervision: Probation, Parole, and the Illusion of Safety and Freedom. When Schiraldi was selected to run the troubled …
Article • April 15, 2024 • from CLN April, 2024
Research Shows It Makes Sense to Hire Individuals with Criminal Records by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Knott Rand, a nonprofit research organization, published a research brief on January 9, 2024, that proves hiring individuals with criminal records is not risky and has benefits for the employer, the individual …
Article • April 15, 2024 • from CLN April, 2024
Time Served Under the First Step Act: Reduction, Not Revolution by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Knott The First Step Act (“FSA”), a 2018 law designed to curb recidivism among formerly incarcerated individuals on the federal level, is showing modest but positive results in reducing the amount of time …
Article • April 15, 2024 • from CLN April, 2024
Police Bodycams: If You Film It … by Michael Thompson by Michael Dean Thompson One hundred petabytes is a difficult quantity to comprehend. In plain English, that is about 113 quadrillion or 113 followed by 15 zeroes. According to ProPublica, that is the rough data equivalent of 25 million copies …
A Legal Argument Against Government Purchase of Location Data by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso The lack of effective privacy legislation covering the U.S.—combined with the occasional, poorly worded limitations imposed by the courts—has led to the current situation where law enforcement and other government agencies have been purchasing …
The Problem with Some Non-Carceral Punishments by Carlo Difundo by Carlos Difundo By 2007, the incarceration rate in the U.S. had skyrocketed to about 767 per 100,000 people. That statistic leads the free world and compares unfavorably with Russia’s 450 to 600 per 100,000 people. Many people see the problem …
Article • January 15, 2024 • from CLN January, 2024
Filed under: Informants, FBI
FBI Lost Count of Its Snitches at Capitol on January 6, 2021 by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) had so many snitches at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, that the agency lost track of the number. Steven D’Antouno, formerly in charge of the …
Oregon Supreme Court Clarifies Test to Determine When Person Becomes Agent of the State and Rules Jailhouse Snitch Was Agent, Requiring Suppression of Defendant’s Statements by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso The Supreme Court of Oregon upheld a Court of Appeals decision ordering a new trial for a defendant …
Publication • December 1, 2023
Filed under: Crime Labs
Publicly Funded Forensic Crime Laboratories, 2020-Dec. 2023 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics December 2023, NCJ 306473 Connor Brooks, BJS Statistician N ationwide, 326 publicly funded forensic crime laboratories and multilab systems received more than 3.3 million requests for service in 2020 (figure 1). …
Article • November 1, 2023 • from CLN November, 2023
ICE Employees Caught (Again) Misusing Access to Databases by Jordan Arizmendi by Jordan Arizmendi It seems every month, a new story emerges about how ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) egregiously abuses its power. Just a few weeks ago, Wired published an article about how ICE was improperly demanding data …
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