Publication
May 11, 2018
Ready Player One
  • Privacy and Surveillance

Hollywood offers ominous visions of facial recognition's future

We don’t yet inhabit these imagined worlds, but if we aren’t careful, the reality of ubiquitous tracking via facial recognition isn’t far away.
Publication
May 8, 2018
Screenshot from mandatory minimums video
  • Criminal Justice Law Reform|
  • +1 Issue

DAs and mandatory minimums

In the United States, approximately 94 percent of all convictions happen because the accused plead guilty. This means that people charged with crimes rarely – if ever – go to trial.
Publication
Apr 4, 2018
1964 photo of Martin Luther King Jr. leaning on a lectern
  • Racial Justice

A movement 50 years in the making

You can kill a person, but you cannot kill a movement.
Publication
Apr 2, 2018
Screenshot from mandatory minimums video
  • Government Transparency|
  • +2 Issues

District attorneys and civil asset forfeiture

When the ACLU of Massachusetts conducted a poll last July, voters were most surprised to learn that district attorneys control funds gained through civil asset forfeiture.
Publication
Mar 23, 2018
A child holds a sign saying "Don't take my Dad," after a raid on immigrants in Lowell, Mass.
  • Immigrants' Rights

Our police resources should be used to fight crime – not separate families.

Publication
Mar 20, 2018
Boston Police Officer
  • Immigrants' Rights|
  • +3 Issues

Mayor Walsh, let’s build our own wall—to protect Bostonians from Trump

We must reject the Trump administration’s bigotry, racism, and hatred; to do that, we must build our own wall – in the form of concrete policies, ordinances, and procedures – to protect our communities from federal harm.
Publication
Mar 5, 2018
Zachary Crossen Mistaken Identity Screenshot
  • Police Accountability|
  • +1 Issue

Mistaken Identity

Boston Police Officer Zachary Crossen just last year celebrated the trust being cultivated between the Boston Police Department and the city’s young people.
Publication
Mar 5, 2018
WADADAM DA Email Banner Burgundy
  • Criminal Justice Law Reform|
  • +1 Issue

DAs and the power to prevent reform

Every legislative session, criminal law reform advocates ask lawmakers to pass progressive reforms to our criminal legal system that would make it fairer for everyone. But one group that has remained resistant to sensible reform: district attorneys.
Publication
Feb 19, 2018
Donald Trump 2016 RNC speech
  • Freedom of Religion and Belief|
  • +3 Issues

A Presidents' Day reflection on Donald Trump's first year in office