Emerging infectious disease outbreak risks are ubiquitous worldwide, and highest in landscapes where people, livestock and fragmented natural ecosystems coexist, but detection and data ...

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Privacy advocates warn the glasses could let cops record people without them noticing.

Artificial intelligence tools can help public records users draft clearer requests, understand denials and review documents. But requesters should verify what AI produces and know what to ask when age...

Old Joliet has become a museum, a haunted house, and most recently, a ballpark. Stateville, built to replace it, is coming down. Who gets a say?

Dangerous new forms of networked surveillance are gaining traction with police departments across the United States. One popular example is Flock Safety’s Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR)...

A publicly maintained index of news articles documenting abuses, misuses, and civil liberties concerns related to Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs).

From data gathering to decision making, there’s a gold mine in police funding.

This story was produced as a collaboration between Bolts and Injustice Watch, a nonprofit news organization in Chicago focused on issues of equity and justice in the court system. In... Read More

In Me Too coverage, timing is everything.

Ta-Nehisi Coates reckons with that question, and what it means for the 2028 election.

There have been more than a dozen cases around the country where police use Flock to obsessively and illegally stalk people.

Officers made an average of 732 traffic stops every day for an entire year that were not documented as required by CPD policy and state law, according to data from the city’s Office of Emergency Manag...

Following the ICE murder of Renee Good and an assault on the state by federal immigration forces, a labor-community coalition is calling for residents to refuse to work, shop or go to school on Januar...

A six-figure bill for public records is a good indicator that the government is hiding something

Canadian judge Kimberly Prost is unable to use credit cards, transfer money or book everyday services in what she calls an attack on the independence of the judiciary

“If I didn’t find the evidence for them, I wasn’t too sure they would find it.”

Beginning January 1, the City of Chicago will ban unhoused people on the sex offense registry from seeking shelter on public transit.

An ArcGIS Hub site used by transportation and public works organizations to share winter weather plans, snow routes, and parking restrictions.

From CO2 monitors to better building codes, Dr. Georgia Lagoudas outlines how to clean up the spaces where we spend 90% of our lives.

A Washington judge said images taken by Flock cameras are "not exempt from disclosure" in public record requests.

A listing of recent publications (2010-2020) in the field of Black British History, taken from the 'Bibliography of British and Irish History' in October 2020.