Kansas
Kansas Supreme Court reverses felony and misdemeanor convictions for man claiming he was unable to pay $20 fee when filling out offender registry form.
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Wisconsin
On Monday 32-year-old Menasha police officer Cristian Morales was sentenced for misusing Flock license plate reader cameras for unlawful targeted surveillance. Morales pleaded no contest in Outagamie County court and was sentenced to six months in jail, followed by three years of probation. His sentencing comes as Wisconsin communities push back against Flock cameras and […]
Michigan
An undercover Homeland Security Investigations agent attended an April event in Ann Arbor focused on resistance to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to federal investigative records. It was part of a broader DHS surveillance effort connected to Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota, the major immigration action in and around Minneapolis in January 2026 during […]
Iowa
On behalf of The Satanic Temple, the ACLU of Iowa filed a federal lawsuit Thursday alleging the state has blocked the temple’s rights to free speech, nondiscrimination and religious exercise. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, stems from the state’s repeated refusal to grant permission for the […]
Commentary
Three years after the law enforcement raid on the Marion County Record newspaper, serious settlement money is flowing. Reporter Phyllis Zorn just settled with the town for $850,000. Late last year, Marion County paid out $3 million to journalists and a city councilor. Lawsuits against the city by Record editor and publisher Eric Meyer and […]
Kansas
TOPEKA — Phyllis Zorn, the reporter whose acts of journalism served as an excuse for the August 2023 police raid of the Marion County Record, will get $850,000 from the city of Marion to settle her federal lawsuit over the raid. Attorneys for Zorn and the city filed a motion Tuesday, exactly three years after […]
Minnesota
The U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday that its Civil Rights Division is monitoring polling sites in in Hennepin and Ramsey counties for the state’s primary election “to ensure transparency, ballot security and compliance with federal law,” according to a press release. The two counties declined to allow the DOJ inside polling precincts, as is […]
Kansas
Midwest Innocence Project attorneys argue a Kansas City, Kansas, man was unjustly convicted of murder and attempted murder in a 2009 barbershop shooting.
New Jersey
Half of the terminally ill inmates deemed eligible for compassionate release died while their cases were still in court.
Commentary
Ten years ago in June, “Grey’s Anatomy” star Jesse Williams accepted a Humanitarian Award from the BET cable network. He held it aloft, then leaned not just into the microphone, but into a kind of racial homily prosecuting America’s caste system and binding the wounds of its casualties “If you have a critique for the […]
