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Deeply unserious person writing about serious things | investigative journalist writing about queer people & the legal system | nonbinary menace & belligerently queer | dog dad | Chicago is home | DMs are off the record | read my stuff: byadamrhodes.org
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Sameeeee
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Not by my count 🙃
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"“If what Chicago wants to be doing is just creating a virtual panopticon where everybody who’s involved in the criminal justice system is watched 24/7 and—if there’s a crime—they’re instantly identified as being near that crime scene, then let’s be honest about that.”
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A stunning, thorough, fascinating look at how politicians, law enforcement, academics and psuedo-statisticians have propped up a legally dubious and deeply flawed surveillance system aimed at using invasive technology to solve problems that are endemic to the systems they seek to reform.
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"Plaintiffs have straightforwardly demonstrated that irreparable harm will follow if their TRO request is denied," Judge Royce Lamberth, a Reagan appointee born in 1943 and appointed to the bench in 1987, wrote.
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I covered this lawsuit earlier at Law Dork here (it’s the “second lawsuit” mentioned): www.lawdork.com/p/court-bloc...
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Adjacent pages are also down, and the database itself is listed as unavailable.
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Thank you so much Karen 💜💜
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You’re so sweet! Thank you friend 💜💜💜
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CONGRATS
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as always, tremendous thanks to @theappeal.org for publishing this, especially with what feels like an impossible number of different crises to cover.
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thank you!!!