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SB 552: The Dawn of Virginia’s Secret Police

February 22, 2016February 23, 2016 Lorelei McFly 3008 Views Accountability, foia, FOIA Requirements, Freedom of Information Act, government transparency, India Kager, open gov, open goverment, police accountability, Police State, political graft, SB 552, secret police, Sen. Chap Petersen, Sen. Dick Black, Sen. John Cosgrove, Senate, Senate Bill 552, The Virginian-Pilot, Virginia, War on Cops, war on police

We’ve been hearing a lot about criminal justice reform, a movement with support from both republicans and democrats who acknowledge

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Federal Judge Rules FBI Illegally Defies Freedom Of Information Act

February 3, 2016February 3, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 1284 Views Accountability, All Gov, all time low, America’s spearhead police organization, arcane methodologies, armed occupation of federal land, brought to task for its crimes, bundy, case evaluations, case law, Civil rights, classified national security matters, common American police department, compelling reasons, confidential information, Congress, cop block, Copblock submissions, copblock.org, Corruption, Department of Justice, Dishonesty, District Judge Randolph D Moss, DoJ, double-standards, emboldened bureau entities, FBI, federal bereau of investigation, federal law enforcement agency, flagrant violation of federal law, FOIA exemption, FOIA policy, foia requests, freedom, freedom of information request, fundamentally at odds with the state, government transparency, Guardian, Harassment, Illegal search/entry, implicit disclosure of highly sensitive information relating to ongoing investigations, inherently secret, Justice System, Kel McClanahan, kelly patterson, law enforcement techniques, lost in a press loop, MIT, National Security Counselors, oregon standoff, orwellian, PhD, PHD-in-training, police, police accountability, Police State, privacy act of 1974, processing notes, protective layers of artificial secrecy, public knowledge, public outcry, renegade crusade, revolution, revolution of ideas, rights, Ryan Shapiro, search slips, Surveillance, Transparency, transparently criminal, treachery, treason, withholding evidence

The following post was submitted to the CopBlock Network by Isiah Holmes, who has been featured several times previously on

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Two Bexar County Sheriff’s Deputies Murder Man on Video; News Responds in Defense of Airing Video

September 1, 2015September 1, 2015 Ademo Freeman 1968 Views Accountability, Ademo Freeman, bexar county sheriff's department, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, double-standards, excessive force, film the police, Filming police, freedom, gilbert flores, government transparency, killer cops, michael thomas, officer involved shotting, police abuse, police accountability, Police brutality, Police State, Texas, Transparency, wrongful death

Michael Thomas was conducting his usual business route when he noticed two Bexar County Sheriff’s deputies chasing a man around. That

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Technology’s Gift to Activism

January 30, 2014January 30, 2014 CopBlock 726 Views document police interactions, government accountability, government transparency, mainstream media, New Media, police accountability, record police encounters, Technology, victim-less crimes

Theresa Richard shared this post via CopBlock.org’s submit page for the Bitcoin-Fueled Content Contest. My parents raised me to respect authority

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Rummaging in the Government’s Attic

December 26, 2013September 12, 2014 Pete Eyre 1587 Views cop block, copblock.org, foia, Freedom of Information Act, government transparency, government's attic, hackers on planet earth, hacking, phil lapsley, the next hope conference

Recently a page about Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests was added to this site (copblock.org/foia) in the hope that

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Audit of Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation Finds Agents Working on The Clock to Raise Funds For Cruise Ship Vacations

April 5, 2013April 3, 2013 CopBlock 995 Views Accountability, Corruption, Government Abuse, government transparency, law enforcement, Transparency, waste, waste of taxpayer money

Submitted by Dustin McCaskill, of Oklahoma Cop Block Mar. 2013 – Audit of O.S.B.I. Finds Employees Working On the Clock