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Orlando police seek access to massive database of license plates, concerning privacy advocates

September 16, 2019
The Orlando Police Department could soon have access to a massive database of license plate numbers of cars collected by privately owned cameras across the country. City council members on Monday approved a request by OPD to purchase access to a commercial database operated by Vigilant Solutions, a company that sells license plate reader hardware,…
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SEC Judges' Due Process An 'Empty Promise,' 5th Circ. Told

September 4, 2019
An accountant alleging the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s in-house judges are unconstitutionally protected from removal has told the Fifth Circuit that a U.S. Supreme Court ruling suggests a lower court was wrong…  Read the full article here.  TweetShareShare0 Shares
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DC Group Sues to Stop Arizona Agency Chiefs From Overruling Administrative Law Judges

September 2, 2019
A Washington, D.C., organization is challenging the ability of the heads of state agencies in Arizona to discard the conclusions of independent hearing officers. The new lawsuit filed Friday in Maricopa County Superior Court contends that a caregiver at a group home was denied his rights when Greg McKay, director of the Department of Child…
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Lucia's Latest ALJ Fight Thrown Out Of Federal Court

August 22, 2019
Raymond Lucia, who successfully argued to the U.S. Supreme Court that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission‘s administrative law judges had been appointed unconstitutionally, was less triumphant in California federal court on Wednesday… Read the full article here.  TweetShareShare0 Shares
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SEC Defends Its Judges' Removal Protections At 5th Circ.

August 12, 2019
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission defended its in-house judges Friday, telling the Fifth Circuit the U.S. solicitor general has explained the processes for removing the agency’s administrative law judges can be interpreted as constitutional… Read the full article here.  TweetShareShare0 Shares
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Five Places in Miami Where You're Being Surveilled

August 11, 2019
Protecting your private data in 2019 is a struggle, to say the least. Even something as innocuous as an app that makes your face look old might secretly store all of your photos and create a database of faces in a Russian basement somewhere. It’s next to impossible to track who’s gotten hold of your…
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