When AI Invents the Pixels: Challenging AI-Enhanced Video Evidence in Criminal Cases by Richard Resch by Richard Resch When prosecutors offer “enhanced” surveillance footage or body-camera video, defense counsel must understand what enhancement actually means. Traditional forensic methods such as adjusting brightness, applying contrast filters, or using established interpolation algorithms …

Massachusetts State Police Facing Possible Class Action Lawsuit for Illegal Recordings by The Massachusetts State Police (“MSP”) is the defendant in a potential class action lawsuit alleging that troopers secretly recorded nearly 200 individuals during criminal investigations, many of them drug cases. These recordings made by a phone app called …

The ACLU Calls for a Moratorium on Blanket Recording of ALPR Footage by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss The American Civil Liberties Union (“ACLU”) has published an appeal to the general public asking for organized opposition to the encroaching blanket surveillance company, Flock Safety. Concerns continue to be expressed …

When Your Criminal Case Is Dropped, But Your Mugshot Lives Forever by Julie Levitch by Julie Levitch, The Crime Report Just as protests spread across the country in response to the killing of George Floyd, I was arrested—a white, middle-class, suburban mom with no criminal record. While the appalling circumstances …