In addition to affordability, New York City’s mayor-elect will be forced to reckon with the NYPD’s sweeping mass surveillance operations.

The Brennan Center aims to help industry leaders, policy advocates, and groups uniquely affected by AI keep up with the legislative landscape.

Purporting to go after “domestic terrorism,” the president presents an imagined left-wing conspiracy and authorizes punishments for even tenuous connections to speech the administration doesn’t like.

Government claims of AI-powered surveillance create an illusion of total oversight that encourages self-censorship without actually improving security.

Inside Amazon’s Aggressive Push To Get Cops Using AI

States and cities have the power to decide whether and how their police departments collaborate with federal law enforcement.

U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer ruled in favor of California Gov. Gavin Newsom in his challenge to President Trump's deployment of troops to Los Angeles.

Today U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will begin considering aliens’ antisemitic activity on social media and the physical harassment of Jewish individuals as grounds for denying imm...

Applicants will be vetted for “any indications of hostility towards the citizens, culture, government, institutions or founding principles of the United States.”

Barred from using Clearview AI, NYC police relied on a marshal in the fire department to run a search that turned up photos of the student at his high school graduation.

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This resource page is intended to provide journalists, policy-makers, and the public information about the Public Oversight of Surveillance Technology (POST) Act.

With police officers around the nation facing increased scrutiny over excessive force, the New York Police Department laid out new guidelines for physical encounters with the public, as well as a new ...

Title: A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to reporting on investigations relating to the police department

The office needs more resources, access, and autonomy to carry out its critical oversight duties.

The two politicians worry that the Office of the Inspector General for the NYPD doesn’t have enough people to adequately do its job.

The two politicians worry that the Office of the Inspector General for the NYPD doesn’t have enough people to adequately do its job.

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.

The influx of money comes as the administration is resisting congressional oversight of conditions at ICE facilities.

While states and cities can choose to help enforce federal law, the 10th Amendment means that the U.S. government can’t force them to do so.

Most immigrants facing deportation are entitled to a hearing before an immigration judge, but their legal rights differ from those in criminal cases.

The US State Department has instructed US embassies and consulates around the world to pause new student visa appointments as it develops guidance to expand “social media screening and vetting” to all...

The president directed his administration to compile a list of “sanctuary cities” that do not cooperate with federal enforcement of immigration laws.

Donald Trump has essentially turned the border into a military base in order to be allowed to use the armed forces to make arrests, including of any Americans in the vicinity. Elizabeth Goitein, senio...

To serve his deportation agenda, the president is warping an archaic, discredited law.