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Fargo police surveillance tactics made the news recently when a local criminal trial revealed that “drones were used to surveil the suspects,” in addition to other more common techniques that included GPS…

“An Eden Prairie police detective’s lie about a search warrant in a single drug case will result in 32 cases being dismissed and will let at least one convicted person…

In a recently published study, almost 70 percent of crime laboratories “implicated an innocent person in a hypothetical bank robbery,” explains a New York Times op-ed. The study, which included more…

A recent ruling by the Minnesota Supreme Court “will allow some DWI test-refusal convictions to be retroactively challenged,” reports the St. Cloud Times. In State v. Johnson, the court ruled that “even when someone has pleaded…

A recent ruling by the Minnesota Supreme Court “has expanded the ability of police to search premises without a warrant,” reports Minnesota Lawyer. Three of the five justices who considered…

Minnesota’s Sentencing Guidelines Commission, which has considerable control over how much prison time offenders receive for convictions, “has cobbled together 12 last-chance policy changes to consider before a new governor…

A California company, Hound Labs, says it has made a marijuana breathalyzer that can “accurately detect whether a person has smoked pot in the last two hours, a window many…

Amazon’s Rekognition, a facial recognition software program used by some law enforcement agencies, performed poorly in tests run by the ACLU, the organization says. The ACLU used Rekognition on photos of…

North Dakota is one of 35 states included in a recent report about the Justice Reinvestment Initiative, a partnership that includes The Pew Charitable Trusts, the U.S. Justice Department, and…