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A big deal: a federal court has BLOCKED Alabama from using nitrogen gas to execute. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
My colleague Lauren Gill has done essential work witnessing what nitrogen gas does, and writing about this torturous method of execution in Alabama specifically. Revisit:
In this week’s newsletter:
-Volunteer ICE watchers keep working to protect immigrants in San Diego.
-Four states held their primary elections yesterday. We share the highlights.
-An expert on police surveillance answers your questions.
-Plus, much more:
The Times of San Diego reports on a man who was sent to jail after a Flock camera mistakenly linked him to the site of a shooting.
Video of a police interrogation of an American Samoan man arrested in Alaska for voter misconduct shows that police were also confused about non-citizen nationals. “I thought people of American Samoa were U.S. citizens,” one state trooper said.
“There is nothing you do in a digital world that cannot be obtained with a judicial warrant,” says legal scholar Andrew Guthrie Ferguson. “All of it can be obtained by police seeking to prosecute you.”
In a new Q&A, law professor Andrew Guthrie Ferguson answers your questions on how surveillance and data tracking have become key tools within the criminal legal system.
A New Jersey pastor hopes state lawmakers will pass a law permanently opening jury service to people with criminal convictions. “Why should they be excluded from this right when they’ve come out and are sharing in all the other burdens of society?”
Many states require that mail ballots be postmarked by a specific day. But due to a USPS rule announced late last year, voters may need to put their ballot in a mailbox days in advance.
A federal judge ruled that Alabama’s executions by nitrogen gas are cruel & unusual punishment. My colleague @laurengill.bsky.social shed light on the Alabama’s initial experiments with the gruesome method of capital punishment
Milwaukee is one of those places where an officer used Flock cameras to stalk a romantic partner— but efforts to cut ties with Flock have hit a wall:
Alabama said Alan Miller’s execution by lethal gas would be “more humane.” He writhed and gasped for air in his final moments.
A change in how mail is postmarked could lead some voters to miss key deadlines, including voter registration. Advocates worry the people most affected will be those already facing voting barriers.
In a small Alaska town, American Samoans face prosecution for voting in the only country they’ve ever known. They live in a limbo, created by colonial expansion, that now confuses even public officials—and has made them a new target for policing voter fraud.
A legal expert on digital surveillance answers questions from Bolts readers about how police track your personal data, and what public officials could be doing to restrict it.
A legal expert on digital surveillance answers questions from Bolts readers about how police track your personal data, and what public officials could be doing to restrict it.
New Jersey has been one of the harshest states in banning people with records from juries. Murphy’s order restores eligibility to over 300,000, but stops short of permanent change.
The sheriff in Wisconsin’s capital county will stop using dozens of AI surveillance cameras posted up across Madison and surrounding towns, after the Dane County Board of Supervisors pulled funding......
Some really crazy cases in here
- cop looked up ex-girlfriend and family in Flock 100+ times
- cop stalked wife giving "test" as reason
- cop searched one plate 395 times in 10 months; was later fired
Cops keep getting arrested for using Flock to stalk people
www.404media.co/cops-keep-ge...
