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NACDL @nacdl.org · 29/09/2026

🧵A surveillance vendor is telling police it can add facial recognition to Flock camera data. Flock says it never will. Someone else is ready to jump in. New reporting from @404media.co: www.404media.co/surveillance...

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Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras

A surveillance company wants to "close the gap" that Flock won't do, by pitching facial recognition on its cameras.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/09/2026

Talking recently to family members of people snatched up and expelled to third countries by ICE, I learned: 1) All of those captured were in 287(g) jurisdictions; 2) None of the family members had known what 287(g) was and had erroneously thought people with no arrests were safe.

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Public Defenseless Podcast @pdefenselesspod.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Police got one warrant. After that, they and Google narrowed the list between themselves, no judge in the loop. Jumana Musa on the Chatrie ruling: pulling your location history is a Fourth Amendment search. Full episode: open.spotify.com/episode/3l42...

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FAMM Foundation @famm.org · 27/09/2026

'The Vanishing Trial,' a powerful documentary by @famm.org and @nacdl.org , is now streaming on Kanopy! The best part? You can watch it for free—just sign up through your local library or university. pulse.ly/cstninbiex #VanishingTrial

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Public Defenseless Podcast @pdefenselesspod.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Police had no suspect. So they got a warrant for every phone Google tracked inside a circle on a map. The Supreme Court ruled 6-3: that's a Fourth Amendment search. Jumana Musa (@nacdl.org) joins Hunter. Now available to Patreon subscribers: linktr.ee/pdefenseless...

A charcoal card from the Public Defenseless Podcast, Episode 517. Red text reads "No suspect. No leads." Beside it, a red outlined circle holds 19 dots, 3 of them red. White text reads "Just a circle on a map, and every phone Google tracked inside it." Grey text adds "The Supreme Court: that's a Fourth Amendment search." A pull quote reads "Whatever your belief system is, the government doesn't belong in it unless they can actually tell a judge why something illegal has happened and why they believe you have been implicated." It is attributed to Jumana Musa, Director, Fourth Amendment Center, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Red text at the bottom reads "Now available to Patreon subscribers," above linktr.ee/pdefenselesspodcast.

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NACDL Fourth Amendment Center @4ac.nacdl.org · 19/09/2026

The nationwide backlash against automatic license plate readers is “uniting Trump country and progressive strongholds alike,” according to the Wall Street Journal.

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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 18/09/2026

NEW THIS MORNING: our director @evangreer.bsky.social in the New York Times detailing how Flock became Public Enemy No.1 and what we can learn about how to fight back against the surveillance tech that permeates our lives through grassroots organizing. Read it @ FFTF.link/NYT

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Opinion | How Flock Cameras Became the Enemy

The campaign against Flock shows that fighting to protect personal privacy isn’t a lost cause.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Locking people up for using drugs will never make sense to me. The people I've known who've used drugs, in spite of the threat of severe consequences, did so bc they are not/were not okay. Locking people in dungeons traumatizes them further and makes these patterns even harder to break.

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James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Jeez, this is grim. "At a moment when legitimate news organizations are struggling to survive, it has raked in untold hundreds of millions of eyeballs... polluting the media ecosystem with noxious AI clickbait designed to do little else but trick Google’s algorithms."

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026

i thought this was neat ballsandstrikes.org/ethics-accou...

Screenshotted excerpt from the linked article, with the final two sentences highlighted in green, reading as follows:

Courts have an array of options for punishing noncompliance and compelling the administration to follow court orders. The most glaringly underutilized tool judges have at their disposal is the power of contempt, which allows judges to compel testimony and to impose penalties like escalating fines or even imprisonment. Sometimes, the mere threat of contempt is sufficient to trigger remedial action: In January, for instance, after the administration failed to release a habeas petitioner from immigration detention as directed, a federal district court ordered the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement to “appear personally before the Court and show cause why he should not be held in contempt.”

In its order, the court acknowledged that compelling an agency head to testify was “an extraordinary step,” but reasoned that “the extent of ICE’s violation of court orders is likewise extraordinary,” and that “lesser measures have been tried and failed.” Within hours, the government released the petitioner. Members of the Trump administration had no desire to follow the law, but they had even less desire to explain themselves under penalty of perjury.

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Happy Constitution Day y'all! Long may it stand. ❤️

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I wrote about the insane developments in Chris Duncan's case. He was exonerated by the LA Sup. Ct. in June. But the local DA vowed to re-try him. Yesterday, cops showed up at the home of alleged victim's mother, demanded her DNA, threatened to arrest her, and said they would exhume her daughter.

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Breaking: DA demands DNA from Chris Duncan and Haley Oliveaux’s mother

Louisiana continues to persecute a wrongly convicted man

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 15/09/2026

🚨 The Supreme Court has rejected the Trump administration's bid to impose new mail-in voting restrictions for the 2026 midterms. Ballots will keep moving through USPS as usual.🧵 NPR ↓ www.npr.org/2026/09/14/n...

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The Supreme Court rejects Trump's mail voting restrictions for this year's midterms

The Supreme Court has rejected the Trump administration's request to allow mail-in voting restrictions under a U.S. Postal Service plan for the midterm general election.

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 15/09/2026

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The Supreme Court rejects Trump's mail voting restrictions for this year's midterms

The Supreme Court has rejected the Trump administration's request to allow mail-in voting restrictions under a U.S. Postal Service plan for the midterm general election.

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 14/09/2026

AI-powered surveillance is spreading fast across Maine. License plate readers and AI cameras log where people go, often with no vote, no notice, and no warrant.👀 NACDL's Fourth Amendment Center @4ac.NACDL.org senior litigator Sidney Thaxter⚖️ on the threat to privacy. 🧵

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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

9/11 ANOTHER WORLD WAS POSSIBLE We could have responded by putting the terrorists on trial—as the overwhelming majority of our NATO allies’ population (and the rest of the world) wanted. Instead, we responded with war—just what the terrorists wanted. It made them warriors, not criminals.

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

In the past 25 years, I've represented many New Yorkers who suffered injuries as they worked to help our city heal after 9/11. Despite grave risks to their own well-being, they went to Ground Zero, every day, to repair our streets, our homes, our lives These unsung heroes must never be forgotten

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Jon Hutson @jonhutson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Your location data, search history, and personal devices shouldn't be a warrantless fishing expedition. Essential insights here from @nacdl.org on protecting constitutional rights against unchecked digital surveillance. Must-read @wired.com piece by @dmehro.bsky.social ⚖️

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 10/09/2026

1/ 🚨 New from @wired.com: Clearview AI is quietly testing "InquiryIQ" — an experimental AI tool that takes one face-match hit and fans out across the web to auto-build a dossier on you: employers, aliases, associates, addresses, arrest history. 🧵

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Alice Miranda Ollstein @alicemiranda.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Judge Higginson wonders if Louisiana is "asking the federal government to help you impose your criminal laws" and whether the national restrictions the state wants would infringe on the rights of states that allow abortion. More on this --> www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

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Louisiana’s abortion pill case could wipe out access in blue states

Red states claiming "sovereign injury" seek to impose nationwide restrictions.

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 09/09/2026

1/ A Virginia mother let her 5-year-old walk a half-mile to a pond in their own gated community. For that, she was criminally convicted, handed a 6-month suspended sentence, and placed on a child-abuse registry for 7 years. 🧵

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 08/09/2026

1/5 The right to a jury trial is vanishing. The overwhelming majority of criminal convictions now come from guilty pleas, not verdicts. Fewer and fewer people ever face a jury of their peers. Here is why that matters, and what some organizations are doing about it. 🧵

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Sandhya Dirks @audiosand.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The anti-Brown racism (and the surveillance state) we are (re)encountering was in great part birthed by 9/11 - I have reported on in multiple stories how that hatred, bigotry and violence also gave a new generation of South Asian and brown Americans a push into politics: www.npr.org/2023/01/05/1...

A screen shot of the written transcript from an NPR audio story from Jan 5th, 2023:

DIRKS: 9/11 fundamentally changes what it means to be South Asian American, says political scientist Sangay Mishra.

SANGAY MISHRA: It's a highly underappreciated story - right? - how South Asians have been targeted, not only Muslims, not only Sikh, but just being brown.

DIRKS: Just being brown made you suspicious. Mishra says 9/11 created a new kind of racial category - being Muslim-looking. And for many South Asians, this punctured the myth that they were somehow protected as a model minority. Which brings us to now.

MISHRA: You take any major progressive issue and Indian Americans are largely on the left.

DIRKS: There's also been this real trend of especially younger progressive Desi candidates taking on establishment Democrats.

ZOHRAN MAMDANI: I'm a Democratic socialist who ran against the party.

DIRKS: That's Zohran Mamdani, one of the first South Asians elected to the New York Assembly in 2020.

MAMDANI: Because if you played the party's rules, the time just never seemed to come for South Asians.

DIRKS: He says he thinks more Desis are running to the left because they were left out.

MAMDANI: I think that we have seen the limits of institutional politics and the racism of institutional politics.

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 08/09/2026

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FAMM Foundation @famm.org · 03/09/2026

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Jon Hutson @jonhutson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Hate Flock (and Axon too)? Check out this thread and the free webinar on how lawyers & activists are pushing back.

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 02/09/2026

Lol. Axon: "We ain't them Flock snoopers you've learned to hate: we're a whole 'nother snooper you ain't hated yet!" 😆 Cops asked Axon to change their camera's shape "for the optics" while they "batten down the hatches." Same warrantless plate-tracking, new disguise. 👀 🧵 via @404media.co

Same snooping. New disguise. Cops asked Axon to redesign its license-plate cameras so the public won't recognize them. Warrentless tracking of every plate that drives past.

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 27/08/2026

“If ever there was a window into the soul to reveal the privacies of life, this seems like a good one.”

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NACDL Fourth Amendment Center @4ac.nacdl.org · 25/08/2026

Let us paint a picture: - Discovery requests are due - There’s some weird tech at play that you haven’t seen before or don’t know much about - You’re not sure what’s happening or what to ask for - Maybe you’re a little stressed Sound familiar?

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NACDL Fourth Amendment Center @4ac.nacdl.org · 21/08/2026

Sadly, this news doesn't 'shock' us. Aggressive police tech & surveillance in schools have become the norm for youth today. More on this topic in our forthcoming report, "Algorithmic Adolescence." apnews.com/article/shoc...

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Nebraska's largest school district asks police to stop using electric shock gloves on students

Omaha police agreed to stop carrying gloves that can deliver electric shocks in the halls of Nebraska's largest public school district.

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 21/08/2026

The Supreme Court held in Chatrie that people have a privacy interest in their cell phone location history. The ruling has potential impacts for a wide range of surveillance technologies. Join @nacdl4ac.bsky.social on Thu, Sep 10 to learn about the decision and how to apply it to your cases.

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NACDL Fourth Amendment Center @4ac.nacdl.org · 19/08/2026

ALPR systems like Flock track more than your license plate! They can also do pattern analysis and search by “a place, a stretch of time, and a pattern of behavior.” Sound familiar? A virtual panopticon by any other name… www.wired.com/story/flock-...

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Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code

Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plate...

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ICE Flight Monitor @iceflightmonitor.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Two small (14-seat) Journey jets originating in Mesa, AZ have just landed in Rzeszow, Poland about 30 min apart from each other. These flights likely mark the 5th time ICE Air flights have landed in Poland under Trump 2.

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 18/08/2026

🧵1/ A federal appeals court just blocked an end run around the Senate. On Monday the Ninth Circuit affirmed the disqualification of Sigal Chattah as Acting U.S. Attorney for Nevada. The panel was unanimous. Judge Eric Miller, a Trump appointee, wrote the opinion.

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 14/08/2026

Automated License Plate Readers scan and log every car that passes, building a searchable record of where you've been. How can defenders challenge it? Join our 9/23 webinar on how police use networks like Flock, the constitutional stakes and how to fight it. Register: www.nacdl.org/Event/Engage...

How ALPR surveillance works, how it's abused, and how to challenge it. Wednesday, September 23, 3pm Eastern

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Jenn @jennburrill.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

“A free & fair society does not use the justice system to silence its political opponents" Heidi Beirich led the @splcenter.org ’s Intelligence Project that produced an annual report on hate groups DOJ is charging her with using donations to pay informants inside extremist groups ✏️ @politico.com

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Ex-Southern Poverty Law Center official charged in broader criminal case against group, lawyer says

Heidi Beirich, a political extremism expert who served as the law center’s chief financial officer, was named in an indictment unsealed Wednesday.

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 14/08/2026

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 13/08/2026

These are the actions of an authoritarian state. Instead of investigating the agent who killed Alex Pretti, Trump's DHS conducted sweeping surveillance of Minnesota organizations that were peacefully standing up to this Administration's lawlessness. Despicable.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Thomson Reuters, which owns news agency Reuters, has signed a $125M deal giving ICE access to its databases of personal data. USA Today has partnered with Palantir to gain "actionable intelligence" on its audiences. The media should be opponents of Trump's police state — not collaborators.

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Free Press @freepress.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

“Palantir is actively working to build a future of total surveillance that is fundamentally incompatible with a free press and human rights, as their tools enable state surveillance and violence both at home and abroad." - @ruddock.bsky.social

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NACDL Fourth Amendment Center @4ac.nacdl.org · 13/08/2026

What does the Supreme Court’s Chatrie decision mean for ALPRs like Flock?

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 12/08/2026

Extraordinary story from @josepagliery.bsky.social following Rogelio Bolufé, one of the Cuban hunger strikers in ICE camps as he becomes a third-country national expelled to Guayaquil, Ecuador, one of the most dangerous cities on earth. www.notus.org/national/dhs...

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No ID, No Money, No Way Out: DHS Deports a Man to a Country He Doesn't Know

The Trump administration sent Rogelio Bolufé, a Cuban national, to a cartel city in Ecuador with no means of escape.

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This whole thing is really disturbing. I don’t know of any previous case in which the government subpoenaed a reporter for asking a question, let alone a question that not even the government has suggested implicated classified information. 1/

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 12/08/2026

New from NYT Magazine. Roberto Mosquera came to the U.S. from Cuba at 12 in the 1980 Mariel boatlift. He served his time for an old crime. Now he sits in a maximum-security prison in Eswatini, a country he had never heard of, with no charge and no way out. 🧵

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He Was Deported to Eswatini in Southern Africa. He May Never Go Free. (Gift Article)

As the Trump administration sends a growing number of immigrants to countries they have no connection to, some find themselves imprisoned with no way out.

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 12/08/2026

The 13th Amendment banned slavery, but it included a carveout sanctioning it as a punishment for people convicted of crimes. Many state constitutions include the same loophole; seven states don’t pay anything for most prison jobs.

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Judge Orders Colorado to Stop Throwing Prisoners in Solitary for Refusing to Work - Bolts

Years after voters amended the state’s constitution to ban forced labor in prison, a court ruling could finally make Colorado change how prison guards “compel and coerce” work.

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