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Fifty Years Ago Today: the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2014 Jul 2014 1 1561

NSA reformers dismayed after privacy board vindicates surveillance dragnet 1 Eugene Jul 2014 Jul 2014 1 1430

Durham police officers accused of faking 911 calls to enter homes 1 jakeXT Jul 2014 Jul 2014 9 1821

Police chiefs call for presumed innocence in background checks 1 shockedcanadian Jul 2014 Jul 2014 3 1305

Source Leaks Secret Guidelines for US Government "Watchlist" 1 friendly_iconoclast Jul 2014 Jul 2014 3 1817

New York police unions lose bid to challenge stop-and-frisk settlement 1 Eugene Jul 2014 Aug 2014 2 1360

Amnesty Intl: "This is not the Bush administration, this is torture happening under Obama" 1 bigtree Aug 2014 Aug 2014 2 1829

Idiot Talk Show Host Michael Berry running a 1 exboyfil Aug 2014 Aug 2014 1 2335

Please help a victim of a police shooting! 1 Dr. Xavier Sep 2014 Sep 2014 1 2681

Cop's Tip For Not Getting Raped By A Cop: 'Don't Get Pulled Over' 1 Man from Pickens Sep 2014 Sep 2014 4 2182

Alleged desecration of U.S. flag case held over for court 1 osaMABUSh Oct 2014 Oct 2014 2 1431

Florida Supreme Court Rejects Cell Phone Tracking by Police 1 friendly_iconoclast Oct 2014 Oct 2014 3 1451

Virginia lawmaker targets civil forfeiture 1 mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2014 Oct 2014 6 1433

U.S. appeals court grills opponents of NSA phone data collection 1 Eugene Nov 2014 Nov 2014 2 1415

SHOCK VIDEO: Darren Wilson Violates 1st Amendment “I’ll Lock Your Ass Up”- Arrests Man for Filming 1 Man from Pickens Nov 2014 Nov 2014 7 1866

Protest Music Is Back - Di%khead American Cops (NSFW) 1 votesparks Nov 2014 Jan 2015 1 1455

California cops hope to expand facial recognition, “eCrime” head says 1 jakeXT Jan 2015 Jan 2015 0 1252

GOP shows true colos - eliminates .civil rights' 1 Panich52 Jan 2015 Jan 2015 3 1645

Virginia: Fairfax SWAT team raids high stakes Great Falls poker game, seizes cash, terrifies players 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2015 Jan 2015 2 2053

x-post from LBN: "Millions of cars tracked across US in 'massive' real-time DEA spy program" 1 friendly_iconoclast Jan 2015 Jan 2015 2 1457

Seattle activist pepper-sprayed while talking on phone sues city and police 1 Eugene Jan 2015 Jan 2015 6 1674

Kansas Lawmakers Seek to Muzzle University Employees | Care2 Causes 1 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 8 1552

FBI really doesn’t want anyone to know about “stingray” use by local cops 1 friendly_iconoclast Feb 2015 Feb 2015 3 1780

Secrecy around police surveillance equipment proves a case’s undoing 1 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2015 Feb 2015 4 1888

Judge approves settlement allowing return of some Mexicans expelled from California 1 Eugene Mar 2015 Mar 2015 3 1354

‘Shut Down Homan Square’: Anonymous, Black Lives Matter swarm Chicago police ‘black site’ 1 Man from Pickens Mar 2015 Mar 2015 3 2342

Wikipedia to file lawsuit challenging mass surveillance by NSA 1 Eugene Mar 2015 Mar 2015 2 1410

Alarming new Barbie stores kids' conversations 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2015 Mar 2015 3 1492

Burma Jails New Zealander for ‘Insulting Buddhism’ in Facebook Post 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2015 Mar 2015 0 1505

Wave of state bills would restrict public access to police body-camera footage 1 Eugene Mar 2015 Mar 2015 1 1390

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Censorship vs. free speech on specialized license plates in Texas 1 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2015 Mar 2015 0 1367

Journalists sue St Louis County police over treatment during Ferguson protests 1 Eugene Mar 2015 Mar 2015 3 1476

University of Maryland investigation finds no policy violation in racist, sexist email 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2015 Apr 2015 2 1577

DEA sued over secret bulk collection of Americans' phone records 1 Eugene Apr 2015 Apr 2015 4 1418

NY Civil Liberties Union: Erie County Sheriff Records Reveal Invasive Use of “Stingray” Technology 1 friendly_iconoclast Apr 2015 Apr 2015 7 1593

This is probably the wrong thread but I would like to here from people who know the law 1 Maraya1969 Apr 2015 Apr 2015 0 1515

Outrageous censorship list 1 Panich52 Apr 2015 Apr 2015 7 1695

Justices Kennedy and Scalia and their divide on gay rights 1 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2015 Apr 2015 3 1598

U.S. lawmakers seek to end spies' mass collection of phone data 1 Eugene Apr 2015 May 2015 3 1477

B.C. man wrongly imprisoned for 27 years in rape case can sue, Supreme Court says 1 shockedcanadian May 2015 May 2015 2 1487

Chicago agrees to pay $5.5m to victims of police torture in 1970s and 80s 1 Eugene May 2015 May 2015 4 1542

Opinion: Press freedom is declining in the US http://alj.am/1dDJZeo 1 Panich52 May 2015 May 2015 1 1388

Echoes of Baltimore on the streets of Jerusalem 1 Panich52 May 2015 May 2015 2 1561

SAY NO TO S04260! We have THE RIGHT TO PROTEST/NO MORE ILLEGAL BARRICADES AT PROTESTS! l 1 Panich52 May 2015 May 2015 3 4482

Broken Windows--Not all they're cracked up to be (food for your Inner Nerd) 1 Jackpine Radical Jun 2015 Jun 2015 1 1454

Transgender teen's rights violated in Connecticut prison transfer, court rules 1 Eugene Jun 2015 Jun 2015 0 1405

'I am a citizen': when border patrol agents violate the rights of US residents 1 Eugene Jun 2015 Dec 2017 3 2028

(xp) Arabs, Muslims can sue U.S. officials over post-9/11 jail treatment 1 Eugene Jun 2015 Jun 2015 2 1538

NCAC -- Policing art 1 Panich52 Jun 2015 Jun 2015 0 1364

NJ police don't like student's art 1 Panich52 Jun 2015 Jun 2015 5 1597

New York reaches outline of settlement over Muslim surveillance 1 Eugene Jun 2015 Jul 2015 1 1331

Government free to pick and choose which proposed license plate designs to allow 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2015 Jul 2015 0 1535

Opinion: Stop treating citizens like consumers (face recognition) 1 Panich52 Jul 2015 Jul 2015 2 1637

Gettysburg’s black residents: Dropping Confederate flag can’t erase racism 1 Panich52 Jul 2015 Jul 2015 0 1295

Graphic Novel Isn't Banned– But Isn't in the School Library 1 Panich52 Jul 2015 Jul 2015 1 1366

Nearly $11 Million In Grants For Two NJ Sectarian Schools Raises Constitutional Concerns 1 Panich52 Jul 2015 Jul 2015 3 1488

Ensuring Separation Of Church, State 1 Panich52 Aug 2015 Aug 2015 3 1450

Is America embracing book banning? 1 Panich52 Aug 2015 Aug 2015 1 1296

Did the College Board Cave to Political Pressure Over AP History? 1 Panich52 Aug 2015 Aug 2015 2 1480

Spain: Woman fined for Facebook post of police car 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2015 Aug 2015 6 1532

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Library’s Tor relay—which had been pulled after Feds noticed—now restored 1 friendly_iconoclast Sep 2015 Sep 2015 5 1547

SCREW YOU, FEDS! Dozen or more US libraries line up to run Tor exit nodes 1 friendly_iconoclast Sep 2015 Sep 2015 4 1560

NYPD to require officers to report every time they use force 1 Eugene Oct 2015 Oct 2015 2 1604

Arizona sheriff denies investigating racial profiling case judge 1 Eugene Oct 2015 Oct 2015 2 1316

Chicago sued for 'unconstitutional and torturous' Homan Square police abuse 1 Eugene Oct 2015 Oct 2015 14 1479

CRITICS NOT SATISFIED WITH DHS CELL CHANGES 1 Panich52 Oct 2015 Oct 2015 1 1240

The Prison-Industrial Complex: Why we need publicly funded elections 1 Alison Hartson Nov 2015 Nov 2015 3 2205

Sixty years ago today, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Ala. 1 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2015 Dec 2015 1 1300

Homan Square: Chicago police chief's downfall prompts calls to shutter facility 1 Eugene Dec 2015 Dec 2015 2 1251

FDR: 1 discntnt_irny_srcsm Dec 2015 Dec 2015 1 1369

Librarians and privacy advocates ally to condemn cybersecurity bill 1 Eugene Dec 2015 Dec 2015 4 1238

FBI head: terror fight requires open backdoors to encrypted user data 1 Eugene Dec 2015 Dec 2015 1 1132

ACLU Pushes For More Transparency On No-Fly List 1 Panich52 Dec 2015 Dec 2015 4 1274

Happy 224th Birthday, Bill of Rights 1 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2015 Dec 2015 6 2070

Judge throws out 2000 murder conviction, frees Kansas man after 15 years in prison 1 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2015 Dec 2015 2 1321

Latest Battle in War on Christmas Is Texas Nativity Scene Skirmish 1 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2015 Dec 2015 0 1396

Four men—including a pair of pastors—sue Tacoma police over stingray documents 1 friendly_iconoclast Feb 2016 Feb 2016 3 1592

Sheriff Faces Misdemeanor After Dying Inmate Didn't Get Care 1 Eugene Feb 2016 Feb 2016 3 1464

NYPD allegedly violated civil rights in wrongful home searches 1 Eugene Mar 2016 Mar 2016 3 1687

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