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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 5d

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

www.wired.com

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 8d

New: ICE has bought a tool that tracks the locations of hundreds of millions of phones globally, updates every single day. Usually harvested from apps and advertising

www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day

Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

www.404media.co

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 12d

I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵

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Lori Hoetger @profloriann.bsky.social · 22d

Happy Constitution Day! Let's celebrate while we still have one

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 23d

New from 404 Media: airlines are selling *5 billion* ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching, per new docs we obtained. ARC is a data broker owned by United, American, Delta, etc. Then sells peoples' travel info to ICE, Secret Service, FBI etc www.404media.co/airlines-sel...

Airlines Sell 5 Billion Plane Ticket Records to the Government For Warrantless Searching

New documents obtained by 404 Media show how a data broker owned by American Airlines, United, Delta, and many other airlines is selling masses of passenger data to the U.S. government.

www.404media.co

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Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 23d

Great piece. It’s not just NYPD.

Your Data Will Be Used Against You

They’re Watching You www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Opinion | What You Need to Know About Police Surveillance

New tools allow law enforcement agencies to track us at an unimaginable scale.

www.nytimes.com

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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · Sep 8

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional

ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

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Lori Hoetger @profloriann.bsky.social · Sep 8

Welp I know what quote I'll be putting on the screen when we talk about the role of race in Terry stops

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · Sep 8

Only Justice Kavanaugh even bothers to write anything to justify this horrifying action.

And it is not in any way reassuring.

Second, even if plaintiffs had standing, the Government has a fair prospect of succeeding on the Fourth Amendment issue. See Brignoni-Ponce, 422 U. S. 873; Arvizu, 534 U. S.
266; Application 22-30; Reply 9-14.
To stop an individual for brief questioning about immigration status, the Government must have reasonable suspicion that the individual is illegally present in the United States. See Brignoni-Ponce, 422 U.S., at 880-882;
Arvizu, 534 U.S., at 273; United States v. Sokolow, 490 U.S. 1, 7 (1989). Reasonable suspicion is a lesser requirement than probable cause and "considerably short" of the preponderance of the evidence standard. Arvizu, 534 U.S., at 274. Whether an officer has reasonable suspicion depends on the totality of the circumstances. Brignoni-Ponce, 422 U.S., at 885, n. 10; Arvizu, 534 U. S., at 273.

Here, those circumstances include: that there is an extremely high number and percentage of illegal immigrants in the Los Angeles area; that those individuals tend to gather in certain locations to seek daily work; that those individuals often work in certain kinds of jobs, such as day labor, landscaping, agriculture, and construction, that do not require paperwork and are therefore especially attractive to illegal immigrants; and that many of those illegally in the Los Angeles area come from Mexico or Central America and do not speak much English. Cf.
Brignoni-Ponce, 422 U.S., at 884-885 (listing "[a]ny number of factors" that contribute to reasonable suspicion of illegal presence). To be clear, apparent ethnicity alone cannot furnish reasonable suspicion; under this Court's case law regarding immigration stops, however, it can be a

"relevant factor" when considered along with other salient factors. Id., at 887.
Under this Court's precedents, not to mention common sense, those circumstances taken together can constitute at least reasonable suspicion of illegal presence in the United States. Importantly, reasonable suspicion means only that immigration officers may briefly stop the individual and inquire about immigration status. If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter. Only if the person is illegally in the United States may the stop lead to further immigration proceedings.

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Jason Cantone @jasoncantone.bsky.social · Sep 5

If you have already or will successfully defend a legal psychology dissertation in 2025, apply for the @ap-ls.org
Dissertation Award by December 31! Winners will be invited to present their research at the AP-LS Annual Conference in March 2026!

More info here: ap-ls.org/awards/awards/dissertation

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Lori Hoetger @profloriann.bsky.social · Sep 5

It's Carpenter day in Crim Pro!!🎉🎉🎉🎉

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Lori Hoetger @profloriann.bsky.social · Sep 3

This is a brilliant idea! I might steal it for tomorrow's class

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Lori Hoetger @profloriann.bsky.social · Aug 26

Congrats!! It's a great piece

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · Aug 25

SCOOP: CBP has had access to more than 80,000 Flock cameras nationwide. Cops said they didn’t understand they were sharing with CBP. Flock has just cut off access: www.404media.co/cbp-had-acce...

CBP Had Access to More than 80,000 Flock AI Cameras Nationwide

Flock said it has "paused all federal pilots" after police departments said they didn't realize they were sharing access with Customs and Border Patrol.

www.404media.co

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Lori Hoetger @profloriann.bsky.social · Aug 26

Just a reminder we're currently open for registration! Stipends still available!

Lori Hoetger @profloriann.bsky.social · Jul 30

Nebraska Law is hosting a junior scholars conference for Big Ten schools on Oct 27 & 28! We are excited to welcome scholars with fewer than 10 years of teaching. Lincoln in the fall is a fun place & even better: $500 travel stipends for presenters! Register now: law.unl.edu/big-ten-earl...

Big Ten Early Career Scholars Workshop | College of Law | Nebraska

This collaborative workshop will provide an opportunity for participants to present works-in-progress at any stage of development and receive valuable feedback from peers and mentors within the Big Te...

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · Aug 26

"It is without a doubt the most illegal search I've ever seen in my life," U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui said from the bench. "I'm absolutely flabbergasted at what has happened. A high school student would know this was an illegal search."

unreal quote 😭

jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · Aug 26

Jeanine Pirro seems to have pissed off this judge

"We don't just charge people criminally and then say, 'Oops, my bad,'" [Judge Faruqui] said. "I'm at a loss how the U.S. Attorney's Office thought this was an appropriate charge in any court, let alone the federal court."
www.npr.org/2025/08/26/g...

'The most illegal search': Judges push back against D.C. criminal charges

Inside the federal courthouse in Washington, D.C., on Monday, tensions over the potential for federal overreach broke into open court.

www.npr.org

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Lori Hoetger @profloriann.bsky.social · Aug 18

Anyone care to guess how long my family lasted into the school year before someone got sick?

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Lori Hoetger @profloriann.bsky.social · Aug 4

Middle kid starts kindergarten soon so I promised him & my oldest I'd hang out with them all week & do all the fun things we didn't have time for this summer. I have a whole list of class prep, edits, cites etc I need to do, but I have a feeling I'm not going to regret this. Thankful I can do this!

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Lori Hoetger @profloriann.bsky.social · Jul 30

Nebraska Law is hosting a junior scholars conference for Big Ten schools on Oct 27 & 28! We are excited to welcome scholars with fewer than 10 years of teaching. Lincoln in the fall is a fun place & even better: $500 travel stipends for presenters! Register now: law.unl.edu/big-ten-earl...

Big Ten Early Career Scholars Workshop | College of Law | Nebraska

This collaborative workshop will provide an opportunity for participants to present works-in-progress at any stage of development and receive valuable feedback from peers and mentors within the Big Te...

law.unl.edu

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Lori Hoetger @profloriann.bsky.social · Jul 25

This... will not end well
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose and

www.whitehouse.gov

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Lori Hoetger @profloriann.bsky.social · Jul 22

I've been interested in expectations of privacy for awhile, so the dialogue around the whole Coldplay KissCam thing is wild to me. I'm trying to imagine a criminal defendant arguing a reasonable expectation of privacy in what they did at a concert with thousands of people
apnews.com/article/cold...

Can you ever expect privacy in public? Coldplay kiss camera saga tells us a lot about the answer

When the KissCam at a Coldplay concert last week landed on a couple who suspiciously escaped their embrace and tried (but failed) to duck out of the spotlight, the internet immediately got to work.

apnews.com

Lori Hoetger @profloriann.bsky.social · Jul 16

While boarding my flight, and Gen-Zer called me "queen." This is good, yes?

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Lori Hoetger @profloriann.bsky.social · Jun 21

Yum

Shrimp boil on brown butcher paper next to a can of summer shandy

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Lori Hoetger @profloriann.bsky.social · Jun 18

Yiiiiiikes

Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · Jun 18

Another bit that jumped out at me, from Thomas: "There are particularly good reasons to question the expert class here, as
recent revelations suggest that leading voices in this area
have relied on questionable evidence, and have allowed ideology to influence their medical guidance."

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Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · Jun 12

When DHS Secretary Noem suggests "liberating" populations from their elected officials, and you're polite enough to only ask a question rather than shouting "WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK????" and you're still taken down to the ground.

@padilla.senate.gov

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