Maria Cramer and Christine Hauser report: Two men were being held hostage in a Bronx apartment. They had been threatened at gunpoint, tied up and tortured for hours by two other men who pretended to be plumbers to get inside, the police said. One of the victims managed to escape and called the police, who…
Category: U.S.
White House orders enhanced airport screenings for Ebola
Nick Turse and Jana Winter report: The Biden administration is moving forward with plans to screen airline passengers from two African countries arriving in the U.S. for Ebola, which will involve sending them to one of about a half dozen designated airports. The Centers for Disease Control confirmed the plan Friday evening, several hours after…
Massachusetts Court Reins In Pretext Stop And Search
John F. Carr reports: Two favorite tactics used by traffic police in Massachusetts — the pretext stop and the inventory search — may no longer be automatically combined to justify an inventory search of a car stopped on a pretext under a ruling handed down earlier this month by the state Appeals Court. In 1973,…
Off to the Races: Over 50 Privacy Bills Introduced in the State of New York
Lydia de la Torre and Ann J. LaFrance of Squire Patton Boggs LLP write: … New York was closely watched in privacy circles last year, as approximately 30 privacy bills had been introduced and were discussed during the 2019-2020 session. None of the bills were enacted but state legislators clearly are not giving up. More…