404 Media is filing public records requests around the country to find out how cops are using Axon's ALPRs. Here is how you can do that too.

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The state park and Cal Fire are reducing dangerous vegetation today. Many unofficial air quality sensors registered AQIs above 150 in Berkeley.

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404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.

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Two years after tough talk about confronting sexual assault and harassment in city  political circles, the S.F. Democratic Party’s process has proven to be a farce

For twenty-five years, an Italian hacker collective has built communications infrastructure designed to survive censorship, surveillance and police raids. On August 26, the United States designated it...

This is likely an undercount. The full scope is hard to pin down because these subpoenas typically only come to light when a user is given notice and challenges them in court, or when a company docume...