Want to Know the Risks of That Pesticide on Your Food or Yard? EPA Finally Makes Databases Public. For the first time in the agency’s history, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency posted searchable databases of pesticide harm. By Investigate Midwest Miss a day, miss a lot. Subscribe to The Defender’s Top News of […]
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Want to Know the Risks of That Pesticide on Your Food or Yard? EPA Finally Makes Databases Public.
Fusion Centers Enter Kids As Young As 1 Years Old In Secret Gang Databases
[embedded content] Recent documents from the Metropolitan Police Department in D.C. (MPD) and the Boston Police Department (BPD) show that Regional Intelligence Centers (RIC) are encouraging police officers to put children and adults in secret gang databases. Last month an article in The Intercept showed that police gang databases are riddled with civil rights violations and errors. It revealed how police used […]
California Police Officers Abuse State Databases With Impunity
Law enforcement agencies in California set new records in 2016 for the misuse of statewide records databases despite lax reporting requirements for database abuse cases and little independent investigative oversight of such privacy violations. New data on official misuse of the California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (CLETS) – which […]