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Article • December 15, 2022 • from CLN January, 2023
Filed under: Databases, junk science
NIST’s Upgrade to Software Reference Library Makes Data More Accessible to Law Enforcement by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The National Institute of Standards and Technology (“NIST”) upgraded its National Software Reference Library (“NSRL”) to make its data easier for law enforcement agencies to access in searches during criminal investigations. …
Article • June 12, 2022
FOIA Request Reveals Cincinnati Cop Had Sex While On-Duty With Sex Workers He Searched in Police Database by Brooke Kaufman by Brooke Kaufman According to a recent WCPO report, a 29-year-old Cincinnati police officer resigned from his post in 2020 after investigators uncovered he used a law enforcement database to …
Article • March 15, 2022 • from CLN April, 2022
Dangers of Data Gathering by Los Angeles Police Department by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon For decades, officers with California’s Los Angeles Police Department (“LAPD”) have utilized Field Information Cards (“FIC”) for reference whenever they interact with citizens. This contact may take the form of a traffic stop whether or …
FBI hiding an unpublished police use-of-force database from FOIA requesters by Brooke Kaufman by Brooke Kaufman  For years, the FBI has been collecting information from police departments on their use of force. “Lackluster participation” from law enforcement, however, has prevented the agency from publishing public reports or statistics based on …
Publication • 2021
Filed under: Databases
How Best to Mitigate Prison Gerrymandering 1 How Best to do Prison Population Data Reallocation, i.e., How Best to Mitigate Prison Gerrymandering?* Bernard Grofman Distinguished Professor of Political Science University of California, Irvine Bgrofman@uci.edu August 10, 2021 KEY WORDS: prison gerrymandering; one person, one vote; apportionment; redistricting * Grofman is …
Article • December 1, 2020
EFF Compiles Data on Surveillance Operations on Citizens Across the Nation by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell The Electronic Frontier Foundation (“EFF”) released a new report in November 2020 on the variety of ways that law enforcement agencies spy on the general public. Called Real-Time Crime Centers (“RTCC”), police and …
Article • November 15, 2020 • from CLN December, 2020
Filed under: Databases, News in Brief
Guilt by Google by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins An extraordinary wealth of information is easily available if one only utters the magic word –  “Google.” The problem arises with the realization that though the Google-genie provides information, there is no guarantee that the information is accurate or fair. Questions …
Article • November 15, 2020 • from CLN December, 2020
Technology and Police Reform by Anthony Accurso by Anthony Accurso Technology innovation seems to impact every aspect of our lives in the modern era, but what roles should technology play in policing? As the national conversation has turned to police reform, technology’s roles are being questioned anew. Three technology trends …
Article • August 26, 2020
Hackers Expose Hundreds of Thousands of Documents Containing Subscriber Info Google Turned Over to Law Enforcement by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Hackers dug into servers of a hosting company in Texas used by law enforcement and found that hundreds of thousands of documents from more than 200 agencies contained …
Article • August 25, 2020
Firms Selling Breached and Hacked Data To Law Enforcement by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso SpyCloud, a company that collects private information on people, mostly info exposed through data breaches, sells access to its databases to anyone willing to pay for it, including law enforcement. While it currently operates …
Article • August 19, 2020
EFF Releases Database that Tracks Law Enforcement’s Use of High Tech Surveillance Gear by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Electronic Frontier Foundation (“EFF”) partnered with Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada-Reno (“RSJ”), to release for use by journalists, academics, and the general public a database containing …
Article • August 15, 2020 • from CLN September, 2020
Nationwide Police Misconduct Database Available to Public by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss USA Today, in conjunction with the Chicago-based nonprofit Invisible Institute, has compiled the largest database of instances of police misconduct — and it’s accessible by the public. The database contains disciplinary records for over 85,000 police officers …
Article • December 19, 2019 • from CLN January, 2020
National Fingerprint Database Frees Man After 36 Years by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins Archie Williams seemed doomed to die in prison. Sentenced to life without parole for a 1982 stabbing and rape, he managed to survive in Louisiana’s Angola as months bled into years, and years pooled into decades. …
Article • November 19, 2019 • from CLN December, 2019
National Fingerprint Database Frees Man After 36 Years by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins Archie Williams seemed doomed to die in prison. Sentenced to life without parole for a 1982 stabbing and rape, he managed to survive in Louisiana’s Angola as months bled into years, and years pooled into decades. …
Article • November 19, 2019 • from CLN December, 2019
Law Professor Peeks at Prosecutor’s Veiled DNA Database by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In April 2007, the Orange County (California) District Attorney (“OCDA”) began what has become the largest database of DNA profiles not created by legislative act. Shrouded in secrecy until now, UC Berkeley Law Professor Andrea Roth …
Article • October 16, 2019 • from CLN November, 2019
Filed under: Searches, Databases
Is Data Mining an Invasion of Privacy? by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss The Northern California Regional Intelligence Center (“NCRIC”) contracted with surveillance and data mining giant Planatir, cofounded by billionaire and PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel, for services in synthesizing information gathered from databases in hospitals, banks, police departments, and …
Article • August 20, 2019 • from CLN September, 2019
NYU Study Shows ‘Predictive Policing Systems’ Promote Bad Data, Bad Policing by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell A New York University study shows that “predictive policing” does nothing to prevent crime but actually increases bad policing in cities already struggling with corrupt police forces. This means that in at least …
Article • June 17, 2019 • from CLN July, 2019
Police Want Unfettered Access to Consumer DNA Databases by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Law enforcement agencies across the nation are moving toward adopting more genetic genealogy investigative techniques and training from genealogy experts apparently without first considering the implications such practices have on civil rights or any potential abuses. …
Article • April 12, 2019 • from CLN May, 2019
Legal Aid Society Counters NYC Police Misconduct With New Database by The Legal Aid Society New York City has a new tool in the fight against rogue cops — a browsable database of NYC federal civil rights lawsuit data called CAPstat (capstat.nyc). The nonprofit organization released the information in early …
Article • March 16, 2019 • from CLN April, 2019
Filed under: Databases, Police
NYPD’s Controversial Use of Mugshot Database Searches by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke  The NYPD’s practice of using a crime victim or witness’ description of a perpetrator to generate a search of the department’s mugshot database, often generating hundreds of hits, has caused controversy and resulted in wrongful arrests.  New …
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