The mysterious deaths of 4 of Jeffrey Epstein’s friends
Senate passes resolution opposing Trump pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell
Bill Gates held a top-tier “Q” security clearance at the Department of Energy from 2014 to 2021
Trump’s Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Epstein were in business together
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/howard-lutnick-jeffrey-epstein-in-business-together/
Trump’s Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick quietly announces 7 new equity stakes in private companies
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/6000186-commerce-ai-chips-stakes/
Could More Epstein Files Be Released Soon? Redacted Docs Will Be Reviewed By Judge This Week
Michigan school investigation turns up sexual misconduct reports against Epstein
https://apnews.com/article/interlochen-michigan-jeffrey-epstein-cd84e951ec92e19ce9a44c398085d9f7
Todd Blanche Has Until July 30 to Hand Over Key Epstein Files
https://msmagazine.com/2026/07/29/todd-blanche-epstein-files-katie-phang-lawsuit-court-judge/
Todd Blanche-led DoJ likely to derail Epstein survivors’ pursuit of justice
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/27/epstein-survivors-todd-blanche-justice
Trump says he could withdraw, then renominate Blanche as AG
https://www.npr.org/2026/07/30/g-s1-135784/todd-blanche-attorney-general-trump
Trump threatens to keep Blanche as acting attorney general, revive ‘$10 billion anti-weaponization’ fund
Todd Blanche rescinds Trump’s ‘anti-weaponization fund’ but leaves Trump’s IRS immunity settlement intact
“As part of Trump’s settlement with the IRS in his $10 billion lawsuit against the agency, the DOJ issued an addendum, signed by Blanche in his role as acting attorney general, that would bar the government from continuing any existing audits of tax returns filed by Trump, his family and their companies.”
https://abcnews.com/US/blanche-rescinds-trumps-anti-weaponization-fund-amid-ag/story?id=135315931
Trump Says Supporters Who Attacked Capitol Were Simply On An ‘Innocent Journey’
Trump defends fund to pay ‘great American Patriots’ who attacked the US Capitol
Capital One closed Trump Organization accounts over money-laundering concerns
Capitol One’s lawyers also noted that it kept its reasoning for the closures confidential at the time: it “never publicized the termination decision nor its confidential internal process giving rise to the closure,” and gave the Trump companies months — plus several extensions — to move their money elsewhere, which they did. Large sections of the Trump-linked amended complaint from July remain blacked out under a court-approved sealing order, including an entire portion titled “January 6, 2021: The Political Trigger.”
https://www.npr.org/2026/08/02/g-s1-136834/capital-one-trump-bank-anti-money-laundering
UEFA threatens Trump’s son-in-law Joshua Kushner with legal action over plan to privatize the World Cup
https://www.politico.eu/article/uefa-legal-action-against-gianni-infantino-joshua-kushner/
FIFA boss Gianni Infantino begs Trump White House to save his job
https://nypost.com/2026/08/03/business/fifas-infantino-begs-trump-admin-to-save-his-job/
Key Witnesss in David Hearn’s Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool Case Makes Bombshell Admission
The grand jury witness, who was not identified, testified the property was already damaged before David Hearn touched it, and that about $6,000 to $15,000 was needed to fix the immediate area. Those repairs would have still been necessary “before the defendant interacted with the pool,” according to the witness, who could not answer a grand juror’s question about the difference in estimated costs before and after Hearn’s actions, according to the filing. “Simply put, the government’s witness could not identify any additional cost caused by Mr. Hearn’s alleged conduct,” the filing said. “Indeed, the witness did not even say or suggest that the alleged conduct had compromised the liner at all.”
Trump’s Justice Department Moves To Drop Case Against Ex-Olympian Charged With Damaging Reflecting Pool
Trump’s Justice Department Admits Reflecting Pool Damage Caused By Contractor
Trump’s Reflecting Pool Lies Exposed in Humiliating Admission
Trump blasts DOJ for dropping reflecting pool vandalism case
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/08/01/trump-pirro-doj-reflecting-pool/91134475007/
National park ranger quits, tours visitor centers to fight Trump’s censorship
https://www.sfgate.com/national-parks/article/national-park-resistance-22365447.php
Trump’s attacks on Iran’s infrastructure is a war crime
https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/07/24/us-iran-threaten-attacks-on-civilian-infrastructure
Oil companies make massive profits during Iran war
Trump Admin Argues Terminally Ill Patients Shouldn’t Be Exempt From Medicaid Work Requirements
CNN data guru stunned by Trump’s ‘absolutely huge’ loss of support
https://www.thedailybeast.com/cnn-data-guru-enten-stunned-by-trumps-absolutely-huge-loss-of-support/
Trump Is Rolling Back So Many Workers’ Rights, He’s Placed the US on a Watchlist
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-workers-rights-watchlist
Trump Has Put The American Dream, On A Watchlist
The United States was placed on a watchlist last week by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) amid mounting concerns over its treatment of all kinds of workers, a stark indication of how far the country has retreated from its role as a global champion of workers’ rights. The ITUC Global Rights Index ranks 151 countries on their protection of workers’ rights based on 97 indicators drawn from International Labor Organization conventions and jurisprudence. The US’ most recent ranking of 4 (“systematic violations of rights”)—its worst since the index began.
https://bhr.stern.nyu.edu/quick-take/the-american-dream-on-a-watchlist/
Arizona Man Presents Plan To Surveil Government Officials, Just Like Flock Safety
“I’ve spent the last several months talking to people all over Casa Grande, and one thing keeps coming up: Safety. So, today I’m excited to announce a new company called Shepherd Safety,” Jacob Petrosky said. “Our mission is simple. Keep government officials and their families safe.” It would be no different than how the city monitors its citizens using Flock cameras, he said; he planned to launch satellites that would use AI to monitor “where government officials go, where they stop, who they meet with, and when they return home.” He said he’d already started compiling profiles on their vehicles, spouses vehicles, children’s vehicles, and planned to combine that data with Bluetooth signals, advertising IDs, and commercial data sources, “so our authorized users can replay the movements of every government official and their immediate family,” he said. Local businesses would be invited to join the network, to “protect” officials while they shop, eat at restaurants, and move around the city.
Trump’s Board of Peace drops full Gaza recovery plan in favor of tiny pilot scheme
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee sues DHS Secretary Mullin over illegal seizure of Max Blumenthal’s devices
“Days before Max Blumenthal returned to the U.S., Trump loyalist Laura Loomer wrote a lengthy post on X, raising questions about who paid for his trip and urging the administration to arrest him. During Blumenthal’s detention, CBP officers asked questions that closely mirrored Loomer’s post. On July 14, after CBP seized his phones, Loomer celebrated the seizure and described him as a national security threat.”
https://thegrayzone.com/2026/07/16/adc-sues-dhs-mullin-blumenthals-devices/
Trump Is Outpacing His First-Term Record Number of Airstrikes on Somalia
MA judge blocks Trump from ending temporary protected status for Somalia immigrants
Republican wants to impeach judge who stopped Trump from ending temporary protected status for Somalia immigrants
State Department Mislabels Every African Country at Global Conference
Nicaragua banned US-sponsored coup leaders from elections, sparking U.S. media meltdown
https://thegrayzone.com/2026/07/29/nicaragua-didnt-abolish-elections/
Trump says he will dismantle the ICC ‘brick by brick’
Trump’s approval rating drops to all-time low with major pollster
Trump asks Supreme Court to overturn $83.3 million award in E Jean Carroll defamation case
Comey asks judge to dismiss 8647 seashell case, alleges he was illegally spied on at Trump’s direction
https://www.ms.now/news/comey-asks-dismiss-seashell-case-trump-surveillance
Trump’s payback against Jack Smith is off to a bad start
“House Republicans make it seem like they have a perjury case. They don’t.”
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trumps-payback-against-jack-smith-is-off-to-a-bad-start.html
Judge dismisses Kash Patel’s $10M defamation lawsuit against blogger who called him a ‘chud’
https://www.aol.com/articles/judge-tosses-kash-patel-10m-164051000.html
House Ways and Means Committee Investigation of Break Through News Is an Attack on All Journalism
ACLU Sues Department of Defense for Public Records on Military Officers Assigned to Serve as Temporary Immigration Judges
600 active duty troops serve as judges in immigration court
https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2026-07-30/gbh-daily-active-duty-troops-in-immigration-court
White House pulls controversial DOJ nominee after offensive social media posts revealed
“During his June hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Konstantinos Ligris got sharp questions from Democrats over hundreds of now-deleted social media posts made from his personal X account, including one where he referred to police officers as “dumb as dirt” in response to a clip of dashcam footage. Ligris also made other disparaging comments about members of Congress from both parties and endorsed calls to impeach federal judges who have ruled against the Trump administration.”
MAGA Senate candidate has close ties to White nationalist influencer, his son-in-law
Judge orders Rudy Giuliani to be deposed in sexual assault case
Rudy Giuliani is ‘very unhealthy,’ says his lawyer
Rudy Giuliani, accused of forcing an employee into sex, is “confined to a wheelchair” with breathing issues, according to his attorney — despite recent international travel.
Trump’s Fifth Circuit Court Attempts to Issue an Order That Does Not Exist
https://ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics/precedential-stay-order-fifth-circuit-mandatory-detention/
Florida Supreme Court overturns reprimand of a white judge who asked Black man about chopping cotton
Trump’s Secretive ‘Alien Terrorist Removal Court’ to deport ALLEGED TERRORISTS hears first case
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/first-case-secretive-us-court-meant-deport-alleged-terrorists-2026-07-30/
https://www.npr.org/2026/07/30/g-s1-136289/alien-terrorist-removal-court-isis-terror-plot
Trump’s DOJ is increasingly charging ICE protesters with criminal conspiracy
“The Conspiracy to impede or injure an officer statute, which dates back to the Civil War, has historically been used infrequently. But since President Trump took office last year, the Justice Department has charged more than three dozen people in at least 10 cases. All of them involve people protesting federal immigration enforcement. The government has also indicted nearly 50 people on conspiracy charges in Michigan, Texas and Minnesota using different legal statutes.”
https://www.npr.org/2026/08/03/nx-s1-5886263/ice-dhs-immigration-enforcement-conspiracy-arrests
Judges Chastise Trump’s Justice Department for “Unlawful,” “Unethical” and “Dishonest” Conduct
“Judges simply don’t believe the representations that are being made by United States attorneys, assistant United States attorneys and the like,” said John E. Jones, a former federal judge for the District of Pennsylvania, appointed by President George W. Bush. “I don’t think in the annals of the Department of Justice, in the history of jurisprudence in the United States, we’ve ever seen anything close to this.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/justice-department-presumption-of-regularity
Supreme Court approval hits new low
“A new Gallup poll released on Tuesday showed confidence in the court reached only 33 percent, a record low in 26 years and six-point decrease since 2025.’
https://thehill.com/homenews/5994394-gallup-poll-republican-support-falls/
Trump’s Justice Department drops criminal charge against labor leader David Huerta
Trump’s DOJ charged hundreds with assaulting officers. Many cases were dropped, but the damage was done
First-Ever IACHR Hearing on Excessive Use of Force Against Immigration-Related Protesters
Trump blocked disaster aid to 4 Democratic-led states
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/29/fema-democratic-disaster-requests-trump-01013938
Trump Turns FEMA Into A Domestic SPY Agency That Works Closely With Fusion Centers
Now FEMA is shelling out grant money to state and local authorities to build up capacity to carry out pre-crime operations against “organized political violence,” as one FEMA information bulletin I obtained says. The bulletin, dated July 9, instructs local authorities to prioritize “domestic terrorism” in their grant applications. Titled “Implementation of National Security Presidential Memorandum-7…,” the document echoes President Trump’s emphasis on rooting out suspected domestic terrorists before an attack takes place. To head off these attacks, the bulletin tells states what to buy: training to spot “social media-based indicators,” analysts to monitor “online behaviors and digital footprints,” and teams for “managing persons of concern whose behavior indicates a potential trajectory toward domestic terrorism.” The second document, a Department of Homeland Security grant program notice, is a $1 billion shopping list of available federal money. But there’s a catch: thirty-five percent, it says, must go to terrorism prevention. Another thirty percent is allocated for five designated Department of Homeland Security priorities: “Supporting Border Crisis Response, Enhancing Election Security, Supporting Homeland Security Task Forces and Fusion Centers and Enhancing the Protection of Soft Targets/Crowded Places.”
https://www.fema.gov/sites/default/files/documents/fema_gpd_ib-566-signed.pdf
POLICE STATE WARNING: National Guard in D.C. are moving to long-term housing
Mid-year crime trends report projects historic low for homicide cases
https://counciloncj.org/crime-trends-in-u-s-cities-mid-year-2026-update/
Crime continues historic decline as homicide rates approach century lows
ICE’s New Detention Center Contracts Declare State Laws ‘Shall Not Apply’
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is moving to place its private detention network beyond the reach of state inspectors, publishing draft contract terms that declare state and local laws “shall not apply” to the facilities.
ICE Is Shredding the Bill of Rights. Defending That Isn’t Conservative
Judge orders release of witness to Houston ICE shooting (Trump tried to deport him)
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/07/27/texas-houston-ice-shooting-witness-release/
Maine road sign hacked to protest ICE killings
Maine Just Told ICE to Get Out
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/07/ice-out-maine-shooting-dhs/
All immigration stops in Maine will be recorded, Sen. Collins says
https://www.pressherald.com/2026/07/30/all-immigration-stops-will-be-recorded-sen-collins-says-after-meeting-with-ice-leader/
ICE agents used racial slurs referring to Latinos in text messages
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-07-27/immigration-agents-racial-profiling-aclu
https://www.npr.org/2026/07/29/nx-s1-5910755/immigration-raids-slurs-aclu
Government’s Own Records Reveal Racial Profiling in California Immigration Stops
ICE arrests set Trump-era high in July, as immigration crackdown widens
“Last month, ICE took into custody more than 46,000 individuals facing deportation because of alleged immigration violations.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-detentions-trump-high-july-2026-immigration-crackdown-widens
Trump Orders ICE to Ramp Up Arrests of Haitians
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-haitian-migrants-arrest-deport-temporary-protected-status/
Thousands of children, sponsors arrested by ICE
Inside the NYC Courtroom Where Detained Children Face Deportation Without Attorneys
https://www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/07/31/unaccompanied-children-migrants-without-lawyers-trump/
https://gothamist.com/news/ny-migrant-children-face-having-to-go-it-alone-in-immigration-court
In Memphis, an ‘anti-crime’ task force quietly turned into an ICE crackdown
https://www.npr.org/2026/07/27/nx-s1-5896284/national-guard-memphis-immigration-task-force
ACLU Sues ICE for Excessive Force and False Imprisonment During March 11 Raid In Vermont
Chicago Homeowner Sues Federal Government After Warrantless Raid by ICE Agents
ICE is expanding airport arrests
TSA Is Helping ICE Ramp Up Arrests At Airports
California’s largest ICE facility did not provide adequate medical care
Shocking Scale of Trump’s Secret ‘Torture’ Cruelty Exposed by ICE (Solitary Confinement)
“Between 835 and 1,104 people were put in isolation every month this fiscal year, and a GEO Group-run facility topped ICE’s own segregation table every single month. For the most vulnerable detainees the agency tracks—people with serious mental or medical illness, on hunger strike or on suicide watch—the average unbroken spell in solitary reached 63 days in the winter quarter. That is more than five times the average of 12 days in early 2022, and more than four times the U.N.’s 15-day threshold for treatment that can amount to torture.”
ICE Detention in Louisiana Can Stretch on for Years
https://boltsmag.org/louisiana-immigration-detention-habeas-crisis/
ICE refuses to deny that they’re confining tubercular prisoners in close quarters at their rent-a-prison in Colorado
https://www.courthousenews.com/ice-freezes-up-under-questioning/
ICE arrests Johns Hopkins migrant researcher at Baltimore airport
Top DHS Statistics Official Resigns, Citing ‘War on Immigrants’ and Trump’s ‘Brazen Corruption’
https://www.commondreams.org/news/dhs-deportation-statistics
Trump’s Asylum Policies Have Created Humanitarian Crisis
DHS strips interview requirement for asylum seekers, expediting deportations
ICE is secretly spying on social media, online communities and dark web forums
Authentic8’s SILO has a documented ICE purchasing history stretching across multiple contracts and vendors.
All The Surveillance Technology ICE Uses To Spy On Americans
A leaked document shows the spread of surveillance and investigative capabilities that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials have access to agency wide, from location data harvested from smartphones, to facial recognition apps that can reveal someone’s identity, to tools that let the agency stay anonymous online and approach people undercover. The document covers everything from monitoring social media to tracking the movements of vehicles. ISO ClaimSearch is a database that contains property and casualty insurance claims and medical bills. The database is nearly all encompassing and contains details on more than 1.8 billion insurance claims and 58 million medical bills. Chameleon: a tool which provides “Anonymized means to conduct online investigations, web research, and undercover work” Locate X is a tool that lets ICE search a massive database of location data harvested from smartphones. Made by Babel Street, the tool uses data sourced through ordinary apps installed on peoples’ phones or the advertising ecosystem.
Records Reveal How DHS Agents Surveilled ICE Protesters
Public records shared with Mother Jones appear to contradict DHS’ statements about protester surveillance. A July 2025 report reveals that at least two officers affiliated with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) systematically collected vehicle, license plate, and social media information from everyday people last summer, and at times entered that data into a digital evidence management platform. Some of the surveilled individuals attended an anti-ICE protest. Another simply drove his Jeep around a public parking lot. Yet another took photographs of a musician’s tour bus, mistakenly believing it to be an ICE transport vehicle. The report does not state that any of these people were under investigation for any wrongdoing.
DHS accused of scanning peaceful protesters’ faces, then revoking their Global Entry
DISGUSTED: Teacher Arrested for Clapping at City Meeting Criticizing Data Center
https://www.kwch.com/2026/07/22/teacher-arrested-carried-out-emporia-city-commission-meeting/
DHS plans to add more AI to FOIA processing
https://fedscoop.com/dhs-foia-processing-ai-tools/
DHS S&T launches biothreat AI detection program under Genesis Mission
Madison Square Garden’s Tracking of LGBTQ Celebrities Fuels Broader Fears Over Corporate Surveillance
https://davisvanguard.org/2026/07/msg-lgbtq-celebrity-database/
Why are California Gay Bars Building a Facial Recognition Database of Customers?
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/why-are-gay-bars-building-databases-their-patrons
Meta’s Facial Recognition Smart Glasses Are A Hit Even As Privacy Concerns Pile Up
https://gizmodo.com/smart-glasses-are-a-hit-even-as-privacy-concerns-pile-up-2000792911
PRIVACY NIGHTMARE: You Don’t Want Smart Glasses That Record Everything You Say—Trust Me
https://gizmodo.com/you-dont-want-smart-glasses-that-record-everything-you-say-trust-me-2000793058
Face Age Verification Can Be Tricked By Fake Mustaches And Beard Stubble
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.24194
World Foundation Raises $52.5M to Expand Iris Scans Worldwide
https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/world-foundation-raises-52-5m-145756868.html
Trump to make $20K visa bond program permanent for people from dozens of countries
Is it illegal to trick the Border Patrol into wiping your phone during a questionably legal search?
“Under the Fourth Amendment, a warrant should be required, or at a bare minimum, specific suspicion that there is illegal digital contraband on the device,” Nathan Freed Wessler, the deputy director of ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, told The Verge. “Agents should never be allowed to conduct warrantless searches on behalf of domestic law enforcement agents who just want to evade the normal Fourth Amendment requirement to get a warrant from a judge.” The suspicion that immigration agents are surveilling activists has plenty of basis. In a lawsuit filed in Minnesota federal court, a Minneapolis labor organizer claimed that CBP was conducting “systematic” searches of activists’ devices, using counterterrorism as a pretext to keep tabs on the president’s left-wing critics. In March, more than a dozen members of a convoy that delivered humanitarian aid to Cuba had their phones seized at Miami International Airport.
https://www.theverge.com/report/972146/cbp-phone-search-airport-duress-password
Judge denies police Stingray warrant to secretly spy on thousands of Ohio residents phones
‘Reverse warrants’ (geofence warrants) should worry all Americans who value their liberties
https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/5998614-supreme-court-privacy-ruling/
House Intelligence Committee passes FY2027 Intelligence Authorization Act
FISA Section 702 Isn’t the Only Way the Government Spies on Our Communications
EFF Guide to Recording Law Enforcement
Number 1 should be use a burner phone!
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/eff-guide-recording-law-enforcement
Harvard University police add CCTV cameras on campus to arrest protesters and students chalking sidewalks
“Harvard enacted University-wide campus use rules in summer 2024 after months of pro-Palestine student protests across the College and graduate schools, including a 20-day encampment in Harvard Yard. The rules regulate protests and other campus demonstrations, restricting unauthorized signage, chalking, camping, amplified sound, and actions that block access to campus spaces.”
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2026/7/6/harvard-to-add-security-cameras/
Georgia DA’s office investigator illegally accessed Flock Safety camera system more than 60 times
Georgia Has Arrested At Least 20 Officials for Misusing the Flock Safety Database
NC cop arrested for misusing Flock Safety cameras
Flock Cameras Got the Wrong License Plate 71% of the Time in Roseville, CA
How Many Crimes Has 1,700 Flock Safety Cameras Solved in Cleveland?
“Cleveland police say producing a definitive count of crimes solved because of Flock would require reviewing thousands of investigative files to determine whether license plate readers generated the initial lead, corroborated other evidence or played only a minor role. Officials also note police reports do not consistently document whether Flock was used during an investigation. Even when the technology contributes to a case, they say it is typically one piece of a broader investigation that also includes surveillance footage, witness interviews, forensic evidence and other investigative techniques.”
How cops turned a nationwide Flock Safety camera network into a tool for stalking
Flock Safety cameras can pose a crash risk for drivers (Flock camera are too close to roads)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/30/controversial-flock-ai-surveillance-camera-risk
Flock Safety cameras are getting mobbed nationwide
Rep. Massie says to introduce bill to withhold money from local governments that install Flock cameras
https://www.wlwt.com/article/massie-to-introduce-bill-discouraging-use-of-flock-cameras/73262986
The Kansas Justice Institute Flock Safety Lawsuit: ALPRs Turn a License Plate Into the ‘Functional Equivalent’ of a ‘GPS Tracking Device’
Sam MacRoberts, litigation director for the Kansas Justice Institute, said the legal challenge centers on constitutional protections for residents. “This is America, and we don’t tolerate warrantless surveillance,” MacRoberts said. “Mason is a law-abiding citizen trapped in Wichita’s warrantless ALPR dragnet surveillance program,” MacRoberts said. “He’s done absolutely nothing wrong, but he’s still being tracked, monitored and databased. That’s unconstitutional.”
DOJ Gives COPS $25M to help police purchase surveillance drones
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-releases-25m-law-enforcement-grants-and-resources
Over 1,000 police departments are using drones with no federal privacy oversight
“What those public safety agencies now have the legal runway to deploy — AI-piloted drones carrying thermal cameras, automated license plate readers, and in some cases cell-site simulators — can peer into backyards, follow vehicles from 2,000 feet, and be launched from a smartphone before a patrol car leaves the lot. There is no federal requirement to get a warrant before any of it starts. And the national regulatory framework that will govern these operations permanently — the FAA’s long-delayed Part 108 rule for Beyond Visual Line of Sight operations — moved to the White House’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs for final approval on July 10, 2026, just two weeks ago. When it arrives, it will standardize how police run autonomous drone operations. It will not require a warrant.”
Arming Local Police With Drones. Who Pulls the Trigger?
GeoComm and SkyfireAI to increase police drone surveillance capabilities
Ann Arbor police get $3M to purchase surveillance drones
Plano police get $1.4M to purchase surveillance drones
Newport police receive $375K to purchase surveillance drones as first responder
Police Propaganda: NYPD uses drones to track sharks off beaches
Laurel police purchase two surveillance drones
Kyle police purchase surveillance drones as first responders
Growing use of Utah police drones spurs privacy debate
https://www.deseret.com/u-s-world/2026/07/25/growing-use-of-police-drones-spurs-privacy-debate/
Victoria police purchase surveillance drone as first responder
Skydio Adds Full Drone Lineup to Blue UAS List
https://www.skydio.com/blog/skydio-blue-uas-cleared-list-2026
Schools are adding Mithril Defense pepper-spraying drones
Police Violence
PA neighbors call police on mom for letting her kids play outside 4 separate times
Parity in Practice: The Defense Attorney’s Duty to Ethically Use AI
https://www.courthousenews.com/defense-attorneys-urged-to-cautiously-adopt-ai-to-match-prosecution/
Judge Sanctions Defense Attorney for Misusing AI
Axon Insists Its AI Makes Police Reports Easier. Nothing Suggests It Makes Them Any Better
A Serial Liar Likely Sent an Innocent Man to Florida’s Death Row. Why Is He Still There?
A Typo Landed an Innocent Gamer in Prison for 18 Months
Vermont Department of Corrections Introduces New “Risk Containment” Policy Which Extends People’s Sentences
“Under the policy, the department can use a risk containment classification to incarcerate a person past their minimum release date because of concerns that the person poses a risk to others if they are released.”
https://outside.vermont.gov/dept/DOC/Policies/Risk%20Containment%20Policy.pdf
Appeals Court denies qualified immunity to some St. Louis corrections officers
https://www.courthousenews.com/eighth-circuit-denies-qualified-immunity-to-some-st-louis-jailers/
NJ corrections officer had sex with inmate who paid lookouts to hide it
Overdose rates in Maine soar after incarceration. Can jails change that?
https://themainemonitor.org/jails-trying-improve-overdose-rates/
A Black D.C. man served 26 years in prison. Then a key witness recanted
Judge Expands Lawsuit Accusing Chicago Police of Targeting Black, Latino Motorists
The LAPD has quietly stopped putting many public records online
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-07-29/lapd-public-records-website
Alameda County District Attorney’s Office Denies Documented Racism
https://www.aclunorcal.org/news/alameda-county-district-attorneys-office-denies-documented-racism/
For corrupt Massachusetts State Police, crime really does pay
MA State Police trooper charged with stealing Bobcat excavator, suspended with pay
ACLU of Iowa Report Finds Police in Schools Led to Harsher Discipline for Minor Offenses
https://www.aclu-ia.org/press-releases/aclu-of-iowa-report-finds-sros-a-growing-problem-in-iowa/
Authors Highlight Junk Science’s Role in Wrongful Convictions
New Book Examines Women and Queer People Convicted for Crimes That Never Occurred
The Other Victims of Wrongful Convictions (Families)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/07/wrongful-conviction-family/687394/
Baltimore man found guilty of faking ballistics report in exoneration attempt
https://thedailyrecord.com/2026/07/20/brandon-grimes-fake-evidence-conviction/
CA cop in charge of police explorer’s club arrested for having sexual relationship with 16-year-old
AL cop arrested, accused of sex crimes involving child
Fifth AL cop arrested after investigation into department
https://www.wkrg.com/mobile-county/prichard-pd-officer-arrested/
https://www.al.com/news/2026/07/another-prichard-officer-arrested-charged-with-double-dipping.html
NH Police Chief Accused of Falsifying Records, Placed on Laurie List
MO sheriff arrested, accused of stealing
MA police chief and Stoughton town manager placed on leave amid investigation
MA cop put on paid leave after chase of stolen car ends in crash that killed 17-year-old boy
NYPD supervisor promoted year after being transferred for admitting unqualified prospective cops
TX cop arrested for domestic abuse