RestoreOurVote.org: Voting Rights in Virginia

Restore Our Vote:News in a recent ACLU of VA e-mail…
“Remembering Jack Kemp for Another Passion: Voter Restoration Reform in Virginia”, By Kent Willis, Executive Director, ACLU of Virginia
…He was well aware that Virginia was one of only two states in the nation — Kentucky is the other — that permanently disfranchises every person convicted of [...]

ACLU: Investigation Ordered Into Virginia Fusion Center Document

American Civil Liberties Union : Investigation Ordered Into Virginia Fusion Center Document
Following the American Civil Liberties Union’s criticism regarding a controversial Virginia Fusion Center terrorism assessment report, Virginia Governor Timothy M. Kaine has announced that he will investigate the practices of the secretive center located in Virginia.

Charlottesville Virginia Blogger Asserts Press Freedoms

Public Citizen | Press Room – Court Should Not Force Virginia Blogger to Surrender Notes or Identify Anonymous CommentsIn a brief filed yesterday in the Circuit Court of Buckingham County, Virginia, attorneys from Public Citizen, the ACLU of Virginia, and the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, argued that bloggers enjoy the [...]

UNC Study Indicates Problems with 287(g) Immigration Program

Study Indicates Problems with 287(g) Immigration Program: “A federal law granting local police and sheriffs the power to act as immigration officials when faced with dangerous criminals or terrorists has instead created a climate of racial profiling and community insecurity, according to researchers at the UNC School of Law Immigration and Human Rights Clinic.”

Joe Arpaio, "Toughest Sheriff in America"

Finally! The Law Goes After Joe Arpaio, The Most Abusive Sheriff In America | Immigration | AlterNet: “House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.), and Immigration Subcommittee Chairwoman Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), Constitution Subcommittee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), and Crime Subcommittee Chairman Bobby Scott (D-Va.) called on Attorney General Eric Holder and Homeland Security Secretary [...]

American Civil Liberties Union : Supreme Court Refuses To Revive Online Censorship Law

American Civil Liberties Union : Supreme Court Refuses To Revive Online Censorship Law:
Steven R. Shapiro, Legal Director of the ACLU:‘The Court’s decision not to review COPA for a third time affirms what we have been saying all along – the government has no right to censor protected speech on the Internet, and it cannot reduce [...]

RFID passports cloned wholesale

RFID passports cloned wholesaleA little more discussion from SecurityFocus.com.

US passports can be read and copied from a moving car using a $250 rig – Boing Boing

US passports can be read and copied from a moving car using a $250 rig – Boing Boing: “US passports can be read and copied from a moving car using a $250 rig”

British Journal of Photography – Jail for photographing police?

British Journal of Photography – Jail for photographing police?: “The relationship between photographers and police could worsen next month when new laws are introduced that allow for the arrest – and imprisonment – of anyone who takes pictures of officers ‘likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism’.”

“Breach of due respect to the king” and Jail sentences in Morocco

“Breach of due respect to the king” and Jail sentences in Morocco: ““God, Country, Barca””