Stingrays
Stolen Loot, Secret Spending and Stingray Surveillance
Asset forfeiture, federal equitable sharing funds, secret warrantless surveillance and more. All unconstitutional – and all in a day’s work for a corrupt law enforcement agency. Path to Liberty: April 6, 2022...
Boston Police Use Asset Forfeiture Funds to Secretly Purchase Stingray Spy Device
Civil asset forfeiture is a pernicious policy in its own right. It is nothing more than legalized, institutionalized, government-sanctioned theft. Forfeiture laws flip due process on its head and create perverse “policing for profit” incentives. It’s bad enough...
Rhode Island Bill Would Limit Warrantless Electronic Data Collection and Hinder Federal Surveillance
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (Feb. 2, 2022) – A bill introduced in the Rhode Island House would ban the warrantless collection of electronic data and the use of “stingrays” to track the location of phones and sweep up electronic communications in most situations. Passage of the...
Mississippi Bill Would Effectively Ban Warrantless Stingray Spying, Hinder Federal Surveillance
JACKSON, Miss. (Jan. 10, 2022) – A bill filed in the Mississippi House would ban the warrantless use of stingray devices for location tracking or to sweep up electronic communications in most situations. The proposed law would not only protect privacy in Mississippi,...