The local sheriff ended his county’s Flock partnership, just hours after Governor Ron DeSantis ditched the technology. They’re part of a growing group of GOP leaders turning against Flock.

One morning in late January, civil engineer Juan Sebastián Carvajal-Muñoz was driving to work in Portland, Maine, when federal agents in town for the so-called Operation Catch of the Day... Read More

Defendants had asked for Santa Clara DA Jeff Rosen to be recused after evidence emerged that he was using the ongoing prosecution to fundraise for his reelection bid on June 2.

Almost as soon as Kansas lawmakers passed a new law targeting transgender people in late February, state officials started invalidating some people’s driver’s licenses without warning. The law, which ...

Last November, the city of Verona, Wisconsin, voted to pull out of the sprawling surveillance network run by tech company Flock Safety in hopes of protecting residents’ privacy and preventing... Read ...

Governors Lujan Grisham and Moore signed laws barring local sheriffs and police from partnering with ICE’s 287(g) program, joining a string of eight states with similar prohibitions.

German Gonzalez grew up about an hour south of Stanford University, in a dusty California farming town where the apples for Martinelli’s sparkling cider are juiced and packaged. In high... Read More

A historic NYCHA development leaves behind steam heat for clean energy as part of a suite of new upgrades

In a small Alaska town, American Samoans face prosecution for voting in the only country they’ve ever known. They live in a limbo, created by colonial expansion, that now confuses even public official...

Certainly the dead tend to be thought of more fondly than they were in life. Still, it’s quite disorienting to watch American institutions obediently line up to display the utmost solemnity for a…

Ten years after Kalief Browder’s death by suicide, his story lingers as a reminder of both the horrors of New York City’s Rikers Island and the cascading consequences of solitary... Read More

On May 20, Philadelphia voters will choose whether to create an independent body to investigate dangerous conditions that have plagued the city’s jails for decades.

How one working-class cooperative took an incremental approach to improving efficiency, and found savings along the way

Chris Duncan’s death sentence—built on the testimony of two discredited doctors—illustrates just how faulty the system can be.

As Trump threatens Chicago, organizers are bracing for raids but also hopeful that a vast suite of local protections and community trainings can limit the scale of deportations.

For thousands of people under state supervision who face limits on their freedom to travel, a future without abortion rights could mean a choice "between health care and liberty."