Fusion Center Funding Victory Our Minnesota chapter recently had a major victory, getting increased fusion center funding removed the Minnesota House Public Safety and Senate Judiciary omnibus budget bills. This blocked the Minnesota State Governor Tim Walz’s plan to appropriate more money to fusion centers in Minnesota in order to expand their operations. Governor Walz […]
Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled 5-3 in Torres v. Madrid that when, in 2014, officers shot a woman repeatedly as she drove away from them, that act constituted a “seizure” under the Fourth Amendment. Ms. Torres may now continue her suit for damages against those officers. Chief Justice Roberts asserted a bright-line, relatively broad rule, […]