by Jesse Schwab | Dec 2, 2019 | Amicus, Weekly News Roundup
Welcome to This Week in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. This week, the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General released a report on their investigation of the family separation policy, the Oregon Supreme Court limited the ability of police...
by Jesse Schwab | Nov 25, 2019 | Amicus, Legislation, Racial Justice, Sex Equality
Earlier this year, California enacted SB 41, a bill which prohibits “the estimation, measure, or calculation of past, present, or future damages for lost earnings or impaired earning capacity resulting from personal injury or wrongful death from being reduced based on...
by Jesse Schwab | Oct 3, 2019 | Amicus, Criminal Justice, Policing and Law Enforcement, Privacy and Technology
The arrest of the infamous Golden State killer in April 2018 prompted controversy over law enforcement’s use of genealogy databases. The California case ran cold decades ago, but a well-preserved DNA sample was uploaded by detectives into the public database,...