FBI used counter-terrorism authority to track pacifist human rights group for 10 years By Mara Verheyden-HilliardExecutive Director of thePartnership for Civil Justice Fund For a decade, the FBI flagrantly abused its counter-terrorism authority to conduct a widespread surveillance and monitoring…
Reprint from the Huffington Post WASHINGTON — After months of policy debate, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has unveiled her proposed regulations for how the public can access police body camera footage. While many jurisdictions have sought to shield police departments from turning…
Revelations Show Brookfield’s Security National Coordination Two days before the NYPD’s eviction of the Occupy Wall Street encampment from Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan, Brookfield Properties’ security was in direct communications and sharing information with the US Park Police in…
Reposted from WBAL-TV (NBC) Baltimore LAUREL, Md. — A Prince George’s County man has filed a lawsuit against the city of Laurel, the Laurel Police Department, its chief and two of its officers after the man says he was subjected to…
Reprint from Fox 5 DC It is a bizarre and troubling claim. Allan Sergeant said he was strip searched by a Laurel police officer in the middle of a parking lot in front of a CVS pharmacy. It started as…
Calls settlement’s police reforms “a model for other law enforcement agencies” After nearly 13 years of litigation, a federal judge has approved an unprecedented settlement between the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) and the Justice Department and the Department…
Excerpt from The Washington Post Ending a 13-year legal struggle, a federal judge gave final approval Monday to a settlement in which the federal government agreed to new terms of engagement with demonstrators in the nation’s capital and agreed to…