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ACLU Gets FBI to Release Secret Footage of Freddie Gray Protests
While protesters were flooding the streets last spring, the FBI flew 10 secret surveillance flights over the city. The ACLU obtained information about and footage of those flights thanks to a Freedom...
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Civil Rights Groups Accuse Baltimore Police of Unlawful Use of ‘Stingray’...
The Center for Media Justice, Color of Change, and the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute have filed a 38-page complaint to the Federal Communications Commission over the Baltimore...
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Baltimore, You’re Being Secretly Surveilled
An image from the ACLU’s report on FBI surveillance of Baltimore. The Baltimore Police Department’s secret surveillance plane is no longer a secret. The cover story of this week’s Bloomberg...
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Reactions to Baltimore’s Secret Surveillance
As of yesterday, the Baltimore Police Department’s privately funded secret surveillance program is no longer quite so secret. Reactions have been… mixed, to say the least. The BPD itself took a...
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Someone Attacked Two Famous Country Singers’ Tour Bus Downtown Last Night
Courtesy Dan + Shay/Twitter Country music duo Dan + Shay stopped in Baltimore yesterday for the ninth stop of their tour at Rams Head Live downtown. Unfortunately, the Nashville favorites encountered...
View ArticleThursday Morning Headlines: Mayor Wants Consent Decree Done Pre-Inauguration;...
Police worldwide eye Baltimore’s vast surveillance complex – The Christian Science Monitor Code enforcement agrees to dismiss ‘encampment’ charges against Dundalk church – Fox45 Flacco under microscope...
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Lawmakers Gear Up For Session – WBAL Eyes Over Baltimore: How Police Use Military Technology to Secretly Track You – Rolling Stone Did The Baltimore Ravens Actually Overachieve In 2016? – FoxSports...
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Report: BPD’s Aerial Surveillance Program ‘Holds Potential,’ Needs Further Study
The surveillance plane’s two “orbit areas” over Baltimore. Photo via Police Foundation/BPD. A foundation devoted to researching policing strategies has concluded the Baltimore Police Department’s...
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Russian ‘Spy Ship’ Spotted 70 Miles Off Maryland’s Coast
Photo via CBS/WJZ-13 A Russian vessel capable of spying on the United States has been spotted off the coast of Maryland, raising questions about what it was doing there. According to CBS and others,...
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Someone Stole the ‘Patron Saint’ of Hampden’s Wheels, and He Plans to Get...
Still via Lou Catelli/YouTube The “Mayor of Hampden” is on the hunt for a daring thief. Earlier Sunday morning, someone snatched his neighborhood-famous tricycle straight off W. 36th Street in broad...
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Watch: Ocean City Thieves Snatch Inflatable Santa Off of Front Porch
The inflatable Santa that was taken. Photo via Ocean City Police Department. The holiday spirit is not alive and well in three men who were captured on surveillance footage abducting an inflatable...
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BPD: Surveillance Video Shows Two Suspects in Murder of Tattoo Museum Employee
Still via YouTube/Baltimore Police Department City police say two men are responsible for the death of Foghound bassist and Baltimore Tattoo Museum piercer James Forrester, and both are shown walking...
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Permanent Surveillance Blimps to be Stationed Over Baltimore
Image via Washington Post The powers that be must’ve liked what they saw when that Navy blimp hovered over Baltimore for a few days late last year. The Army has just announced plans to install two...
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If You Use Your Phone, You’re OK Being Surveilled Maryland AG Says
Maryland’s use of Stingray cellphone tracking technology caused quite a bit of controversy when it became public knowledge last year. But Brian E. Frosh, Maryland’s attorney general, thinks the drama...
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Baltimore, Your Bus Might Be Spying on You
via Metro Magazine Three-quarters of Baltimore buses are equipped to record passengers’ conversations. The MTA has been open about their recording capabilities, but many bus riders still aren’t aware...
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ACLU Gets FBI to Release Secret Footage of Freddie Gray Protests
While protesters were flooding the streets last spring, the FBI flew 10 secret surveillance flights over the city. The ACLU obtained information about and footage of those flights thanks to a Freedom...
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Civil Rights Groups Accuse Baltimore Police of Unlawful Use of ‘Stingray’...
The Center for Media Justice, Color of Change, and the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute have filed a 38-page complaint to the Federal Communications Commission over the Baltimore...
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Baltimore, You’re Being Secretly Surveilled
An image from the ACLU’s report on FBI surveillance of Baltimore. An image from the ACLU’s report on FBI surveillance of Baltimore. The Baltimore Police Department’s secret surveillance plane is no...
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Reactions to Baltimore’s Secret Surveillance
As of yesterday, the Baltimore Police Department’s privately funded secret surveillance program is no longer quite so secret. Reactions have been… mixed, to say the least. The BPD itself took a...
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Someone Attacked Two Famous Country Singers’ Tour Bus Downtown Last Night
Courtesy Dan + Shay/Twitter Country music duo Dan + Shay stopped in Baltimore yesterday for the ninth stop of their tour at Rams Head Live downtown. Unfortunately, the Nashville favorites encountered...
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