Reprinted from The Examiner System of mass surveillance and data warehousing on law-abiding persons and citizens prompts privacy rights campaign Hundreds of drones descended on Las Vegas this week, with…
Homeland Security releases third round of documents to PCJF Last Updated: July 31, 2012 at 1:30 p.m. The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund has obtained…
Reprinted from The Examiner The District’s top lawyer on Wednesday said Mayor Vincent Gray’s push to make public document disclosure laws more favorable to the government had…
Ruling clears the way for a class-action lawsuit by the 700 protesters arrested Reprinted from The Guardian A federal judge has ruled that the NYPD failed to sufficiently…
Reprinted from The New York Times A federal judge ruled Thursday that the police did not adequately warn Occupy Wall Street protesters against walking on the…
Reprinted from Gothamist Last fall, more than 700 Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested after they marched onto the Brooklyn Bridge. Protesters sued the city, claiming that police lured…
In an opinion issued late today, US District Judge Jed Rakoff ruled that New York Police Department officers are not entitled to qualified immunity from…
Reprinted from The Associated Press A judge gave the green light Thursday to a lawsuit against police officers in the arrests of 700 Occupy Wall Street…
Reprinted from Business Insider Remember the Occupy Movement? Since last November, when the NYPD closed the Zuccotti Park encampment in downtown Manhattan –the Movement’s birthplace and…
Documents just obtained by the PCJF from its FOIA request show massive nationwide monitoring, surveillance and information sharing between the Department of Homeland Security and…
As a result of hard fought litigation, the PCJF has obtained hundreds of pages of General and Special Orders of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).…
Reprinted from The Gothamist According to 77 pages of documents released by the U.S. Park Police in response to a FOIA request, the owner of Zuccotti…