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...
Joliet Police Department Announces AI Program Will Write Police Reports The City Counsel of Joliet announced that it had entered into a multi-year agreement with an artificial intelligence company that will provide the city’s police department with access to a series...
Investigation Uncovers Police Relying Solely on Facial Recognition Software As we have previously covered, law enforcement agencies across the country have begun to utilize emerging and sophisticated technology in their investigations, sometimes to catastrophic effect...
Justice Department Suspends Controversial DEA Civil Asset Forfeiture Program Last month it was announced that the Department of Justice was shutting down the DEA’s controversial practice of targeting airline passengers for “consensual encounters” at airports, in which...
Search Reveals Over $40 Million of Cocaine in Vehicle Illinois State Police brought felony charges against 27-year-old Vanshpreet Singh and 36-year-old Manpreet Singh, both from Canada, after recovering over $40 million of cocaine during a traffic stop. Police pulled...
