• Hollywood-style surveillance technology becomes reality: Wide-Area Surveillance, is something of a time machine – the entire city is filmed and recorded in real time. Imagine Google Earth with a rewind button and the ability to play back the movement of cars and people as they scurry about the city http://cironline.org/reports/hollywood-style-surveillance-technology-inches-closer-reality-6228 4 comments 15/4/2014 technology
• Detained border crossers may find themselves sent to 'the freezers.' According to interviews and court documents, many immigrants have been held for days in rooms kept at temperatures so low that men, women and children have developed illnesses associated with the cold http://cironline.org/reports/detained-border-crossers-may-find-themselves-sent-to-freezers-5574 4 comments 19/12/2013 politics
• Surveillance project in Oakland, CA will use Homeland Security funds to link surveillance cameras, license-plate readers, gunshot detectors, and Twitter feeds into a surveillance program for the entire city. The project does not have privacy guidelines or limits for retaining the data it collects. http://cironline.org/reports/oakland-surveillance-center-progresses-amid-debate-privacy-data-collection-4978 1507 comments 30/7/2013 technology
• Female inmates sterilized in California prisons without approval http://cironline.org/reports/female-inmates-sterilized-california-prisons-without-approval-4917 172 comments 7/7/2013 politics
• License-plate readers let police collect millions of records on drivers http://cironline.org/reports/license-plate-readers-let-police-collect-millions-records-drivers-4883 3 comments 27/6/2013 privacy
• License-plate readers let police collect millions of records on drivers http://cironline.org/reports/license-plate-readers-let-police-collect-millions-records-drivers-4883 6 comments 27/6/2013 technology
• Without federal funds, border counties struggle to prosecute minor drug cases http://cironline.org/reports/without-federal-funds-border-counties-struggle-prosecute-minor-drug-cases-4753 3 comments 24/6/2013 politics
• A growing demand for milk and cheese in China has the potential to bring California’s beleaguered dairy industry back to life – and with it, renewed concern about its damaging effects on the environment. http://cironline.org/node/4726 3 comments 14/6/2013 worldnews
• Booz Allen Hamilton, a multibillion-dollar consulting firm in Virginia, received a $2 million contract without competition in 2003. With almost no oversight by the Department of Homeland Security or Congress, the contract quickly ballooned to $124 million. http://cironline.org/reports/homeland-security-office-creates-intelligence-spam-insiders-claim-2915 34 comments 13/6/2013 politics
• Dirty Secrets of America's Worst Charities - Raising Countless Millions, Giving Almost Nothing to the Needy http://cironline.org/reports/dirty-secrets-worst-charities-4603 10 comments 9/6/2013 indepthstories
• During polygraphs, border agency applicants admit to rape, kidnapping http://cironline.org/reports/during-polygraphs-border-agency-applicants-admit-rape-kidnapping-4325 6 comments 9/4/2013 politics
• Four of five Border Patrol drug busts involve US citizens http://cironline.org/node/4312 21 comments 31/3/2013 politics
• The Shooter - The man who shot and killed Bin Ladin is now out of the military and doesn't have a job. http://cironline.org/node/4139 27 comments 11/2/2013 indepthstories