By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Were Border Patrol agents profiling Hispanics in Ohio? Two groups have filed a discrimination suit against the Border Patrol in Ohio, claiming agents have been targeting and detaining Hispanics along Lake Erie. Testimony in the case wrapped up in federal court in Toledo last week. Border Patrol officials denied wrongdoing and…
By Editorial Board Albuquerque Journal A friendly “meet and greet” with a DEA agent in Albuquerque could result in what looks a lot like highway robbery – if the agent doesn’t like what you have to say or how you say it. If you refuse to consent to a search of your luggage, well, there’s…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com What do airport screeners look for when they are trying to detect suspicious behavior? The suggestions are part of the TSA’s controversial behavior-detection program, Screening Passengers by Observation Techniques, which outlines suspicious actions. Although the TSA considers the list of behaviors to be confidential, it was posted online. The ACLU, which…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com In an effort to curb racial profiling, the Obama administration plans today to announce new rules for federal law enforcement, the Washington Post reports. Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. wants to prevent federal officials from using gender, race, national origin, religion, sexual orientation and gender identity to open cases. The plan…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com In a move to address decades of concerns about the protection of civil rights, the Justice Department plans to expand its definition of racial profiling to alleviate discrimination by religion, nationality, gender and sexual orientation, the New York Times reports. Although the Bush administration banned racial profiling in 2003, it provided exclusions…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI’s lack of safeguards in collecting suspicious activity leads to privacy violations as well as racial and religious profiling, the ACLU claimed in a new report, the Washington Post reports. The FBI collects so-called “suspicious activity” records using the eGuardian system, which has caused confusion among different law enforcement agencies, the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI does not have to publicly release records on its use of ethnic and racial data, the Star-Ledger reports. The ACLU sued for the records, worried that FBI guidelines foe 2008 were encouraging racial profiling. The guidelines were revised to allow agents to engage in “limited” racial and ethnic profiling, the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The U.S Border Patrol, as part of a lawsuit alleging the agency racially profiles people, has agreed to share records of each traffic stop in Washington’s Olympic Peninsula for 18 months, ABC News reports. The ACLU has alleged in a lawsuit that Border Patrol agents were pulling over people without reasonable suspicion…
