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Records Show DEA Has Tripled Use Of Wiretaps Over Last Decade

June 4, 2015February 28, 2016 Asa J 382 Views copblock, copblock.org, DEA, DEA Spokesman Joseph Moses, DEA surveillance, DHS, drug enforcement administration, Drug war, eavesdropping, electronic eavesdropping, electronic surveillance, electronic wiretaps, FBI, Freedom of Information Act, illegal surveillance, LA Times, marijuana, Michele Leonhart, President Obama, Reuters, sex parties, special operations division, Stasi, surveillance state, usa today, war on drugs

The United States Drug Enforcement Administration has more than tripled its use of electronic wiretaps over the past decade, largely

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Film The Police Everywhere – Including Illinois

November 13, 2013January 6, 2014 Pete Eyre 601 Views ACLU, Anita Alvarez, Censorship, chicago, chicago police department, chris drew, copblock, eavesdropping, film the police, first amendment, garret ean, Illinois, michael allison, patour2013, Pete Eyre, police accountability tour, tiawanda moore, video, wiretapping

Despite claims by Anita Alvarez, the Cook County state attorney, who tried to maintain that the First Amendment doesn’t protect

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Illinois Gets With the Times – Lifts Threat of Jail for Filming Police

May 15, 2012May 13, 2012 Pete Eyre 445 Views 7th circuit court of appeals, ACLU, Ademo Freeman, Anthony Graber, chicago, chris drew, eavesdropping, Featured, felony wiretapping, Illinois, Maryland, massachussets, michael allison, nato, Pete Eyre, police accountability, Simon Glik, tiawanda moore, Transparency, War on Cameras

Last week a judge for the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago said that eavesdropping legislation, long used by

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Police Accountability Report – Episode 38 – Michael Allison

September 4, 2011September 5, 2011 CopBlock 470 Views eavesdropping, Featured, felony, felony wiretapping, Illinois, michael allison, Prison

Early last month, Cop Block covered the horrible charges that Michael Allison is facing (read the in depth coverage here),

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75 Years for Recording Public Officials On Duty!?

August 3, 2011May 9, 2013 Pete Eyre 605 Views Ademo Freeman, Anthony Graber, call food, crawford county attorney tom wiseman, eavesdropping, Featured, felony wiretapping, greenfield police department, Illinois, marc mccoy, Maryland, Massachusetts, max stirner, michael allison, Radley Balko, roger beckworth, tom wiseman, Transparency

UPDATE: March 2nd, 2012 Judge rules eavesdropping law unconstitutional “A Cook County judge today ruled the state’s controversial eavesdropping law

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