The Right to be Left Alone
By: Judge Andrew Napolitano The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right to privacy. Like other amendments in the Bill of Rights, it doesn’t create the right; it ...
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Automatic License Plate Readers: Legal Status and Policy Recommendations for Law Enforcement Use
SUMMARY: The proliferation of ALPR technology raises serious civil rights and civil liberties concerns. Courts, lawmakers, and technology vendors must take action. Ángel Díaz Rachel Levinson-Waldman PUBLISHED: September 10, 2020 Americans drive. ...
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Has Liberty Died in Our Hearts?
By: Judge Andrew Napolitano Late last week, a judge on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court revealed that he had had enough of the FBI and Congress trashing the Constitution. The normally ...
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Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR)
A Civil Liberties Briefing ALPR technology is used by law enforcement agencies across the state. It consists of high-speed cameras mounted on vehicles or stationary objects (such as telephone ...
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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT AUTOMATIC LICENSE PLATE READERS
Automatic license plate reader technology is unregulated in Massachusetts (and in Ohio)—and it implicates civil liberties. What is an automatic license plate reader? Automatic license plate readers (“ALPR”) enable private ...
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The Politicization of the Department of Justice
by Harmeet K. Dhillon The following is adapted from a speech delivered on September 16, 2022, in Washington, D.C., at Hillsdale College’s Constitution Day Celebration. The seal of the U.S. Department ...
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The Bill of Temporary Privileges
By: Judge Andrew Napolitano Last week, the Director of National Intelligence, the data-gathering and data-concealing arm of the American intelligence community masquerading as the head of it, revealed that in 2021, ...
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Restoring the Fourth Amendment’s Oath or Affirmation Clause
The Fourth Amendment’s requirements for obtaining a warrant have been subverted in practice and in legal theory. That’s the argument made in “The Broken Fourth Amendment's Oath” paper written by ...
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America’s Muzzled Freedom
by Scott Yenor - Law & Liberty There are no gulags in America. But that doesn’t mean there is no tyranny. Gulags are so sloppy and inefficient, anyway. America’s coming ...
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Federal Courts: A Failed Strategy for Liberty
By: Mike Maharrey Counting on federal courts to impose liberty is a failed strategy. I recently appeared on the Scott Horton show to explain why. The Supreme Court recently chipped ...
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