The use of a so-called “John Doe DNA warrant” has made the news recently after a convict escaped from an Arkansas prison last week. The inmate, former police chief Grant Hardin, plead guilty to a first-degree murder charge in 2017 when his DNA was entered into the...
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (“CDCR”) recently announced that they are undergoing a massive review of any inmates who may have recently been effected by an estimated 6,000 false positive tests for the presence of opioids. There were...
State Appeals to 7th Circuit to Reverse District Court Ruling As we previously covered, a federal district court judge in the Northern District of Illinois had previously ruled that the Illinois statute covering firearms that included a provision that bans anyone,...
Trump Signs Bill that Criminalizes Deepfake and Revenge Pornography Earlier this week President Trump signed the “Take It Down Act” into law, which makes it a federal crime for individuals to publish, share, or disseminate non-consensual intimate imagery, including AI...
Montana Passes Law Prohibiting Law Enforcement from Buying Private Data As we have previously covered, privacy advocates have voiced their concerns in recent years over the vast amount of data that is being collected by private and government actors, some of which...
Chicago Suburb Launches First Responders Drone Program As we have previously covered, law enforcement agencies across the state of Illinois were given the ability to expand their use of drones in their day-to-day activities last year under a new law. Now, Oak Brook, a...
Pretextual Traffic Stops Will Not Be Banned in the Immediate Future As we have previously covered, there has been controversy surrounding the Chicago Police Department’s use of “pretextual stops”, a practice that some advocates argue disproportionality effects...
Man Arrested After Facial Recognition Software Match A Chicago resident, Phillip Akins, was recently charged with first-degree murder after investigators connected him to a murder last summer utilizing facial recognition software that matched him to a surveillance...
Levels of Dissatisfaction Remains Between CPD and Community Despite Consent Decree Many Chicago residents remain dissatisfied with the Chicago Police Department (“CPD”) and are skeptical of the reform efforts, according to recent survey results from the coalition of...
Internal Memo Directs Prosecutors to Investigate State and Local Efforts to Obstruct Immigration Enforcement According to a memo written by acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove that was distributed across the Justice Department earlier this week, leadership is...
