Freedom of information Archives - Cop Block

Update: Did Tosa PD Claim To Not Have Ex-Detective Document They Already Released?

January 25, 2017 Isiah Holmes 1210 Views Accountability, America 2016, article journalism, assault, Civil rights, copblock, copblock.org, Corruption, Dishonesty, documents, Double Standard, excessive force, foia request, Freedom of information, freedom of the press, Harassment, Illegal search/entry, independent media, investigative report, jay anderson wauwatosa, Justice System, lawsuit settlement, milwaukee police, news, no victim no crime, open records request, open records violations, police documentary, police intimidation, police reform, politics, reporters committee for freedom of the press, robin schumacher wauwatosa, Surveillance, Transparency, Update, wauwatosa detective sexual harassment claims, Wauwatosa Now, Wauwatosa police, wauwatosa police cover up, Wauwatosa Police Department, wauwatosa police harassment, wauwatosa police misconduct, wauwatosa robin schumacher lawsuit, wauwatosa wisconsin, writing

A day after Cop Block’s last article on the Wauwatosa (Tosa) PD Robin Schumacher case, the department emailed back. In

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Open Records Win: Wauwatosa Police Re-Release Annual Reports Following FOIA Requests

April 5, 2016April 5, 2016 Isiah Holmes 1652 Views Accountability, Civil rights, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, Corruption, court ruling, Dishonesty, documentary, double-standards, drug crackdown, Drug war, excessive force, Featured, Film, film the police, Filming police, freedom, Freedom of information, Harassment, Illegal search/entry, milwaukee, open records request, police abuse, police accountability, police redaction policy, police reports, Police State, public police reports, re-release, rights, strike the root, teenagers, Transparency, transparency win, transprency, victory, Wauwatosa PD, win, Wisconsin, wisconsin police

The Wauwatosa Police Department recently re-released their yearly annual online reports following a series of open records requests. Their return

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Undercover Wisconsin Cops Targeted Teen “Forts” in the Woods

February 16, 2016February 16, 2016 Isiah Holmes 2065 Views Accountability, ARTICLE, assault, blog, Brutality, Civil rights, classified, cop block, copblock.org, Corruption, coverup, crackdown, department, Dishonesty, documentary, Double Standard, Drug war, drugs, excessive force, Featured, Film, film the police, forts, freedom, Freedom of information, Harassment, Illegal search/entry, journalism, no victim no crime, Photography, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police brutality, Police State, redaction policy, rights, strike the root, Surveillance, teenagers, Transparency, truth, Update, video, Wauwatosa police, Wisconsin, woods, writing, Youtube

The human tendency to hoard knowledge for a few has never been more transparent than in the modern digital age.

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Documents Reveal COINTELPRO-Style Surveillance Of #BlackLivesMatter

August 19, 2015February 29, 2016 Asa J 1877 Views #blacklivesmatter, ACLU, attorney Nusrat Choudhury, black lives matter, COINTELPRO, constitutional rights, copblock.org, Copwatch Patrol Unit, counter intelligence, FBI, Freedom of information, Freedom of Information r equests, government documents, Grand Central Terminal, Handschu agreement, Jose LaSalle, Martin Luther King Jr. Day protests, Metro-North Railroad, MTA counterterrorism agents, New York Metropolitan Transit Authority, new york state police, nypd, released documents, Surveillance, The Intercept, undercover police

COINTELPRO was a series of covert, and at times illegal, projects conducted by the FBI aimed at surveying, infiltrating, discrediting, and

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Report describes investigation of abusive UMass Lowell officer

January 25, 2012January 1, 2014 CopBlock 907 Views Campus police, Featured, Filming police, Freedom of information, Harassment, Lowell MA, Massachusetts, media, Public records, School, UMass Lowell

This article was cross-posted at Massachusetts Cop Block In October of last year, UMass Lowell student Brendan Brown was threatened

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University refuses to disclose disciplinary information about campus police

December 6, 2011January 1, 2014 CopBlock 593 Views Campus police, Deirdre Heatwole, Featured, Filming police, Freedom of information, Jack Giarusso, Massachusetts, media, Transparency, UMass Lowell

This article has been cross-posted at Massachusetts Cop Block In October, I wrote about how a UMass Lowell student was

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Chief says officer was disciplined, but doesn’t say how

November 9, 2011January 1, 2014 CopBlock 735 Views Featured, Filming police, Freedom of information, Lowell MA, Massachusetts, media, Public records, Transparency

This article has been cross-posted at Massachusetts Cop Block In October, I wrote about how a UMass Lowell student was

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