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NACDL @nacdl.org · 29/09/2026

This is the lesson of the ALPR debate. A vendor's promise is not a safeguard. Once a mass surveillance network exists, other companies build on top of it. Only law and judicial oversight set real limits.

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 29/09/2026

The company also pitches searching footage by race, gender, and age. Privacy experts have long warned that these categories are unreliable. Police would be searching for people using labels a computer cannot reliably assign.

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 29/09/2026

VIDIZMO advertises tools that name people on live camera feeds, match faces to watchlists, and flag "behavior." Its CEO says the Flock integration is not built yet. He also says the company "would love to do the integration."

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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...

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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

That's why NACDL has launched the Criminalization of Voting Rights Rapid Response Team — to defend individuals and organizations facing criminal investigation or prosecution over voting-related actions. The Team is mobilizing now.

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 15/09/2026

Here's what we're watching at NACDL: as mail voting proceeds and November nears, we anticipate a spike in voting-related criminal investigations and prosecutions — aimed at voters and at the organizations that help them.

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 15/09/2026

Trump has cast mail voting as a route to fraud by noncitizens — something studies and audits show is extremely rare, and for which the government gave the courts no evidence. Trump himself voted by mail in Florida this year.

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 15/09/2026

A majority found the administration unlikely to win on the merits. Justice Kavanaugh concurred, saying there wasn't time to roll out the rule for 2026 without chaos. Justices Alito and Thomas dissented. Even GOP election officials — including from vote-by-mail Utah — had warned of confusion.

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 15/09/2026

The Supreme Court kept in place lower-court injunctions blocking a USPS plan — spun from a Trump executive order — that would have forced states to hand over voter lists and add barcodes to ballot envelopes just to get them delivered. Order ↓ www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

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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

Thaxter says these systems subvert the Fourth Amendment's protection against warrantless searches, even where courts have called the cameras constitutional. They put every database "in one place so that they essentially have a panopticon at their fingertips."

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 14/09/2026

Much of this tech went up with no public input, Thaxter says. "There was never a vote. There was never a public forum before these were installed. One day it's not there and the next day it is."

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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

6/ The through-line: as surveillance tech strips away the friction that once limited who police could investigate, privacy protections built for a slower world start to fail. Tools like InquiryIQ demand rules BEFORE deployment — not after.

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 10/09/2026

5/ Price is Litigation Director of NACDL's Fourth Amendment Center — and helped litigate Chatrie v. United States, the landmark geofence-warrant case. In June, SCOTUS ruled geofence searches ARE Fourth Amendment searches & remanded to the 4th Circuit.

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 10/09/2026

4/ The reliability problem: Clearview tested models to run it — including xAI's Grok, repeatedly flagged for racist, extremist output. NACDL's Michael Price: a "hallucination-prone chatbot would not be trusted as an informant" — yet it could feed probable cause.

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 10/09/2026

3/ Scholars call this "digital rummaging" — stitching the scattered clues you've left online into a profile, compressing days of detective work into minutes. That speed doesn't just solve crimes faster. It slashes the cost of fishing expeditions.

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 10/09/2026

2/ Clearview got infamous scraping billions of photos to turn faces into names. Its database grew from 3B images in 2020 to a claimed 70B+ today, used by 2,000+ police agencies. InquiryIQ is the next step: turning a name into your entire life online.

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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

4/ @theatlantic.com has the full story. Worth your time—gift link, no paywall: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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When Mothers Get Arrested for Mothering

Raising independent kids shouldn’t be this hard.

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 09/09/2026

3/ And the suspended sentence is the least of it. A child-abuse registry listing is a collateral consequence that can shadow a person for years—touching jobs, housing, and family—long after a case is "closed." She's appealing.

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 09/09/2026

2/ This is overcriminalization in plain view: the full machinery of the criminal legal system—squad cars, CPS at the door—brought down on an ordinary parenting decision. Conduct that was unremarkable a generation ago is now a criminal charge.

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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...

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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

4/5 @Cato.org says jurors are rarely told three things: You can weigh whether a law is unjust, or unjustly applied. You can ask what a conviction will actually cost the accused. You can vote your conscience, and face no punishment for it.

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NACDL @nacdl.org · 08/09/2026

3/5 We work in coalition on the Trial Penalty Project to protect the right to trial. Now @cato.org is coming at the same problem from the jury box. Their new nonpartisan campaign, Your Verdict Counts, teaches jurors about rights they are rarely told they have. yourverdictcounts.org

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Your Verdict Counts — The Power of the Jury and the Right to a Fair Trial

A nonpartisan campaign about the power of the jury and the right to a fair trial. Learn your constitutional rights as a juror.

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