Lulu Ramadan reports: This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with The Seattle Times. A King County judge ruled last week that a private special education school that has been the subject of a recent Seattle Times and ProPublica investigation has to comply with public information laws and release records to…
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Beachwood, police chief file defamation lawsuit to find out who has been anonymously criticizing her
The Plain Dealer reported: The city of Beachwood and its police chief, Katherine McLaughlin, went to court to unmask the identity of an anonymous online critic. In a lawsuit filed in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court, the city says that “John Doe” is behind a series of accounts that left comments on the Beachwood Police…
Katz or Dogs? Why the Katz Reasonable Expectation of Privacy Test Is More Applicable to Advancing Technology than a Test Applied to Dog Sniffs
Blade M. Allen writes: In the early morning hours on July 7, 1997, a woman, M.C., was raped in her apartment in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Chris McKee & Stephanie Chavez, Albuquerque Man Arrested in Connection with a 1997 Rape Cold Case, KRQE (Dec. 21, 2021). M.C. lived with her cat on the northeast side of the…
Before book-banning wave, the FBI spied on people’s library activity
Anthony Aycock reports: Efforts by school boards and county and state governments to ban books have taken on historic proportions in recent years. The American Library Association reported a record-setting number of book challenges in 2021 — a record that probably was broken in 2022 — and some challengers went so far as to call for the librarians who…