Some law enforcement officials are actively exploring new ways to use technology — ranging from advanced surveillance methods to tracking social media to monitor criminal suspects — but in other cases it turns out to be the criminals’ own use of technology that winds up blowing the whistle on them. Here are two recent instances […]
Month: February 2016
Article: DOJ Stops Sharing Federal Asset Seizures with State, Local Police
Shortly before Christmas, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it was suspending a program which allows state and local law enforcement agencies to claim part of the assets seized in federal law enforcement cases. Known as DOJ’s “equitable sharing” program, the somewhat controversial practice lets state and local law enforcers stake a claim under […]
Article: Making Campus Disciplinary Hearings Fairer and Less Arbitrary
Previous articles 1 & 2 have spelled out why college or graduate schools often do a seriously bad job handling investigations, hearings and decisions on disciplinary charges against students. They’ve detailed how students are often denied due process in many campus disciplinary hearings that, for example, forbid students from having legal representation during hearings, fail to […]
Article: Disciplinary Hearings: Many Colleges and Universities Do Them Very Poorly
The failure of schools to fairly handle student disciplinary proceedings is no longer a well-hidden secret, as recent court decisions are spelling out in some detail. Take, for instance, the decision handed down in July this year by a state court in California in the case of Doe v. Regents of the University of California, […]
Article: A Real Nightmare That May Surprise College and Grad School Students
How’s this for a nightmare? You’re getting a post-secondary education at a public college or grad school, doing well enough in your studies, in which you have invested years of your time and from which you have accumulated tens of thousands of dollars or more in student debt. Then one day, out of the blue, […]