Nick Oberheiden of Oberheiden P.C. writes: Once officers have a search warrant, they are entitled to enter the place to be searched with or without your consent. Given this reality, there is little you can do to prevent a search if officers have a warrant. However, there are still important steps you can—and should—take to…
Category: U.S.
GAO Report Finds 10 Federal Agencies Plan to Expand Use of Facial Recognition Through 2023
From the good folks at EPIC.org: In a new report, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) surveyed 24 federal agencies on their use of facial recognition technology. The report reveals that 18 of those agencies are using facial recognition for purposes including law enforcement, physical security/surveillance, and digital access. Ten of those agencies, including the Department of…
Chicago Inspector General: Police Use ShotSpotter to Justify Illegal Stop-and-Frisks
Matthew Guariglia andAdam Schwartz write: ˀThe Chicago Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has released a highly critical report on the Chicago Police Department’s use of ShotSpotter, a surveillance technology that relies on a combination of artificial intelligence and human “acoustic experts” to purportedly identify and locate gunshots based on a network of high-powered microphones located on some of…
School vaccine records missing for tens of thousands of Ohio students
Jake Zuckerman reports: School vaccination records were missing or incomplete among roughly 1 in 5 sampled Ohio middle and high school students last year, despite state law requiring local boards of education to track immunizations records of all enrolled students. All Ohio students, per state law, must be vaccinated against mumps, tetanus, polio, measles, Hepatitis B,…