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North Carolina Woman Doesn’t Have First Amendment Right to Publish Video of Cop Shooting Her Dogs, Court Rules

From “reason.com” A North Carolina state trooper shot Lydia Nikac’s two dogs, but an appeals court ruled she doesn’t have a right to publish body camera footage of the shooting under the state’s restrictive public records laws.A North Carolina appeals court on Wednesday rejected a woman’s First Amendment challenge to a judge’s order barring her

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Cops Used AI Surveillance To Detain an Innocent Texas Driver. His Lawsuit Just Got the Program Struck Down.

From “reason.com” AI-powered license plate readers flagged an abnormal driving pattern. Then officers made up reasons to pull him over and interrogated him, and they faked a K-9 alert to justify a nonconsensual search.A federal jury on Monday found Bexar County, Texas, liable for systematically violating thousands of Americans’ Fourth Amendment rights for years through

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First Them, Then Us: America’s Shift from Police State to Prison State

This article was originally published by John W. Whitehead at The Rutherford Institution It has been republished with permission from the author. Please contact the author directly for republishing information. “If Trump can disappear them, he can disappear you.”—Robert Reich America, you got fooled. Again. For starters, the war on illegal immigration was never just

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We Had First Flock, Yes, But What About Second Flock?

From “The Libertarian Institute” The 1998 action thriller Enemy of the State (RIP Gene Hackman) imagined a world in which government surveillance could follow an ordinary citizen almost anywhere, drawing on cameras, communications data, and increasingly sophisticated technology to monitor his movements. What once played as an exaggerated warning about the surveillance state now looks

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