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Predictive policing in DOJ-cited jurisdictions is bad policy, AI Now says

by Beryl Lipton

February 19, 2019

The AI Now Institute is calling for checks on the datasets used by predictive policing systems because of concerns that the technology can perpetuate, rather than address, “dirty” policing practices.

Public employee faces charges in Georgia for violating records act

by Jessie Gomez

February 14, 2019

In a first for Georgia, a City of Atlanta employee is facing criminal charges following an order to delay a local tv-station’s public records request.

While investigating a DOJ leak to the mafia, the FBI appear to have overlooked a known mafia mole at the telephone company

by Emma Best

January 16, 2018

The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s file on telephone security measures appears to show the Bureau overlooking an obvious line of inquiry while investigating a leak to the mafia and possible tapped phone lines. While the file indicates that the Bureau checked both the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service’s phones for taps, it indicates they may have overlooked the most obvious possibility: that the culprit was the phone company employee who’d been giving the mafia access to the phone lines.

Truman Capote’s publisher tried to get the FBI to vouch for writer’s “In Cold Blood” investigation

by JPat Brown

September 13, 2017

FBI files on publisher Bennett Cerf show the Random House co-founder trying to use his leverage with the Bureau to get them to vouch for author Truman Capote’s investigation into the 1959 Clutter murders, which would eventually become the seminal true crime novel In Cold Blood.

Trump’s Treasury pick appears to be part of a federal investigation

by Emma Best

January 02, 2017

Citing his desire to have people who “made a fortune,” Trump has selected a number of super-rich individuals with little to no government experience for his cabinet. In this case, the result is a set of picks whose combined wealth is higher than one third of American households combined. And at least one, Steven Mnuchin, nominated to be Secretary of the Treasury, appears to be tied to a federal investigation.