Sanford is Refusing to Release Public Records. We Sued.

No government is above the law. Sanford must turn over their public records related to their police department's cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.

By Anahita Sotoohi

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License Plate Readings Shouldn’t Be Public Data

Such readings shouldn’t generally be retained at all, but if they are at least privacy needs to be protected

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Kansas Town Uses License Plate Readers to Go After Man Who Wrote Op-Ed

Targeting followed opinion piece critical of town’s police and anonymously posted anti-ICE fliers

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Retailers Secretively Using Face Recognition to Spot “Persons of Interest” — Including For the Government

Are Wegmans and other retailers participating in the Trump war on immigrants?

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Flock CEO Goes Ballistic on Critics as More Americans Question Mass Driver Surveillance

CEO attacks motives of people who care about privacy, says they are trying to “normalize lawlessness” and “let murderers go free”

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New Report Highlights How CBP and Border Patrol are Becoming a Repressive Internal Intelligence Agency

AP report reveals how the agency uses AI and mass surveillance across the nation to target, detain, and seize money from innocent drivers

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What an Agreement with ICE Means for the Town of Wells

As Wells considers its next budget, an agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement is likely to increase costs and liabilities, threaten Maine people's constitutional rights, and decrease community safety.

By Anahita Sotoohi, Samuel Crankshaw

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How Trump's Proposed Radical Expansion of Executive Power Will Impact Our Freedoms

A second Trump administration threatens to use executive authority to further limit First Amendment freedoms, surveil Americans and undermine democracy.

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