A review of dozens of incidents caught on camera sheds new light on a largely invisible crackdown.

Frederick County’s sheriff turned his office into a force multiplier for ICE before such collaboration became commonplace. As he again faces voters this year, the harm to immigrant communities is impo...

Just outside of Tallahassee, nestled among rolling hills and pecan groves of Florida’s Big Bend region, Jefferson County is one of the most rural parts of the state. With only... Read More

Alaska officials for years accused American Samoans caught in a unique legal limbo of illegally voting, but finally dropped those charges this month.

An Illinois Answers Project analysis revealed that 63 people who died in jails were missing from state data on in-custody fatalities. Now the state is auditing its records.

North Carolina Justice Anita Earls, a former voting rights lawyer, and Sarah Stevens, a longtime legislator, have been on opposite sides of election issues for over a decade.

The revelation comes two months before Houston voters could force the department to deprioritize misdemeanor marijuana enforcement.

The Fifth Circuit granted qualified immunity to two Harris County deputy constables who watched a police dog bite a suspect for 43 seconds.

The DNA expert at Jeff Prible’s trial accused then-prosecutor Kelly Siegler of using his testimony in an “inflammatory” way.

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...

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

People who lost parental rights helped pass a bill to reform California's law blocking people with past convictions for violent felonies from reuniting with their children.

Election officials need to confirm their address, but registrations in suspense haven’t been canceled.

The California city of Whittier swung to Democrats this spring, spurred by ICE raids and by anger toward election rules that long dampened turnout among Latinos and kept them out of city government.

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Vote-by-mail was not always such a hot topic. It’s a longstanding practice in the U.S., dating back to the Civil War and even before then. It’s secure, with audits repeatedly... Read More

Vote-by-mail was not always such a hot topic. It’s a longstanding practice in the U.S., dating back to the Civil War and even before then. It’s secure, with audits repeatedly... Read More

As a Black woman and survivor of domestic violence, she chose not to gamble on a trial that could have seen her imprisoned for at least 20 years.

In a federal lawsuit, Byron Prophet argues that police supervisors "turned a blind eye" for years as Gerald Goines framed innocent people.

In a break with the Trump era, the winner of the secretary of state primary strongly defends election systems, and the far-right Freedom Caucus lost a lot of ground in the legislature.

Illinois prosecutors shared defendants’ personal data with federal immigration agents without criminal warrants, public disclosure, or legislative oversight.

Frustrated that voters are bypassing the legislatures they control, the GOP is pushing two ballot measures this fall in North Dakota and South Dakota to require a supermajority to amend the state cons...

Hood County has shut down and covered three Flock license plate cameras after officials and residents raised privacy and mass surveillance concerns.

And one Texan says the body’s decision “retriggered” the pain of losing his wife, who counts among the preventable deaths that soon followed the state’s abortion bans.

As of Aug. 7, 79 people charged with murder or attempted murder and 154 people charged with sex crimes were on electronic monitoring.

Five years after a federal court ruling introduced unlimited spending in Alaska elections, voters there hit back on Tuesday, defying their Republican governor and approving new limits that restrict th...

Kansans refuse to shake up their state supreme court, which has protected abortion rights and where a majority more amenable to voting rights cases may be emerging.

Despite a record of botched executions, three states including Tennessee plan to kill by lethal injection on Thursday.

Over nearly a decade in office, Burlington’s chief prosecutor Sarah George has pursued a platform of restorative justice and dialing back low-level prosecutions.

EJ Carrion was charged with disrupting a public meeting for directing an expletive at commissioners.

Hundreds of local police departments have received waivers to fly surveillance drones that navigate with AI.

A man called HPD to report someone firing a gun outside a Home Depot on Sunday but was arrested by ICE agents before officers completed their investigation, according to a police report.

The founder and CEO of Our Rescue resigned in 2023 amid allegations that he had sexually abused and trafficked women himself.

After the Civil War, Congress readmitted Southern states on the condition they not expand felony disenfranchisement—but they quickly ignored the restriction. It has finally caught up with one state, w...

Maine is one of the only places in the country where prisoners keep their right to vote. But logistical barriers to voting still contribute to their larger exclusion from the political process.

In Senatobia, Mississippi, where police killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley, community members had urged leaders to rein in the police. Are they listening now?

Staff note: August 2026 Surveillance issue