civil liberties
Posted Jul 20, 2021, 2:00 pm
Brooke Newman
/Cronkite News
Arizona Democrats called on Attorney General Mark Brnovich to investigate the state Senate’s 'audit' of Maricopa County election returns as a congressional panel launched its own investigation into Cyber Ninjas, the private firm contracted by Senate President Karen Fann.... Read more»
Posted May 7, 2021, 8:25 am
Jeremy Duda
/Arizona Mirror
Under a landmark bill reforming Arizona’s civil asset forfeiture laws signed by Gov. Doug Ducey, prosecutors and law enforcement agencies will no longer be permitted to permanently seize people’s property for alleged criminal wrongdoing without actually convicting them of a crime.... Read more»
Posted Jan 18, 2021, 12:39 pm
Laura Gómez
/Arizona Mirror
A bill introduced before the Arizona Senate wants to make it a felony to intimate police, firefighters or other first responders because they are members of the law enforcement community, which critics say is an attempt to criminalize protests against police violence like those seen across Arizona last summer.... Read more»
Posted Sep 30, 2020, 1:31 pm
Olivia Munson
/Cronkite News
Pima County Sheriff Mark Napier pushed back against claims that white supremacists have infiltrated law enforcement agencies, telling a House committee Tuesday that he has “simply not been exposed” to any evidence of that.... Read more»
Posted May 12, 2020, 2:05 pm
Jeremy Duda
/Arizona Mirror
A prominent Republican attorney plans to take Gov. Doug Ducey to court in an attempt to overturn the stay-at-home order he imposed to combat the COVID-19 outbreak, presuming that order is still in effect by the end of the week.... Read more»
Posted Mar 18, 2020, 6:26 pm
Latisha Nixon-Jones
/The Conversation
With the spread of a deadly and communicable disease – the coronavirus is both – individual liberties may be temporarily sidelined to protect the larger community. ... Read more»
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