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T-Mobile Contraband Study

Publication • February 2, 2018

Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Telephones, Telephone Access, Telephone Monitoring, Cell Phone Access

T-Mobile Contraband Study 601 Pennsylvania Ave, NW North Building, Suite 800 Washington DC, 20004 February 2, 2018 VIA ELECTRONIC FILING Marlene H. Dortch, Secretary Federal Communications Commission 445 12th Street, SW Washington, DC 20554 Re: Promoting Technical Solutions to Combat Contraband Wireless Device Use in Correctional Facilities, GN Docket No. …

WA: Jail Phone Conversations Not Private, May Be Used By Prosecutors

Article • December 13, 2017

Filed under: Jail Specific, Privacy Act, Telephone Monitoring

was still in jail. Their conversations were recorded by the jail's telephone system. According to court documents, the recordings "provided evidence of Dare's complicity in the robbery and were used ...

Seventh Circuit Passes on Opportunity to Weigh in on Police Use of Cell-Site Simulators

Article • September 6, 2017

Filed under: Police Searches, Telephone Monitoring

telephone." Based at least in part on the DOJ's benign description of the Stingray, the majority punted any further analysis. A strongly worded dissent by Seventh Circuit Chief Judge Wood disagreed ...

U.S. v. Black, KS, Order, Contraband Smuggling, 2017

Brief • May 17, 2017

Filed under: Evidentiary Ruling (Disciplinary Hearings), Videotaping, Attorney Client, Telephone Monitoring, Sixth Amendment

recordings of attorney-client meetings at CCA, and audio recordings of telephone calls from CCA inmates to their attorneys. The Special Master has since conducted an extensive investigation, interviewed dozens ...

Jail Official Convicted of Illegally Recording Phone Conversations Loses Appeal

Article • January 10, 2017 • from PLN January, 2017

Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, Jail Misconduct, Telephone Monitoring, Guard Unions

Jail Official Convicted of Illegally Recording Phone Conversations Loses Appeal by Christopher Zoukis A former high-ranking official at a New Jersey county jail, convicted on federal charges for illegally listening to and recording the private phone conversations of jail union leaders, has lost his appeal and will remain in federal …

Chicago PD police spying stingray use IMSI Freddy Martinez, of Lucy Parsons Labs

Publication • December 30, 2016

Filed under: Police Misconduct, Police Searches, Electronic Monitoring, Telephone Monitoring, Police

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al Qaida-Like Mobile Discussions & Potential Creative Uses, MI Bn OSINT Team, 2008

Publication • November 30, 2016

Filed under: Crime/Demographics, War on Terror, Telephones, Telephone Monitoring, Cell Phone Access

, OPS, TARGETING & EXPLOITATION 3 MOBILE PHONE SURVEILLANCE 4 VOICE CHANGERS FOR TERRORIST TELEPHONE CALLS? 5 POTENTIAL FOR TERRORIST USE OF TWITTER: A RED TEAMING PERSPECTIVE. 7 SAMPLE OF OTHER ...

How Chicago Police Convinced Courts to Let Them Track Cellphones Without a Warrant

Article • November 22, 2016

Filed under: Police Misconduct, Police Searches, Telephones, Telephone Monitoring, Police, Arrest Warrants

in the form of a digital analyzer.” In identical footnotes in each case, a digital analyzer is depicted as nothing more than a simple antenna that detects “signals emitted by the target telephone ...

Video Visitation Companies Try to Stop In-Person Visitation at Texas Jails

Article • November 1, 2016

Filed under: Jail Specific, Rehabilitation/Recidivism, Privacy Act, Telephone Monitoring, Video Visitation, Family, Fathers in Prison, Mothers in Prison, Children of Prisoners

Video Visitation Companies Try to Stop In-Person Visitation at Texas Jails by Matthew Clarke In one of the latest attempts to squeeze money out of those least able to afford it, companies that specialize in providing phone and video visitation services to prisoners in Texas jails on a local monopolistic …

Commonwealth Depatment of Telecommunications and Capble, MA, Address List, Peititon of Recipients, 2016

Brief • November 1, 2016

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Monitoring, Cell Phone Access

and Cable 1000 Washington Street, 8th fl. Suite 820, Boston MA 02118-6500 Telephone: 617-305-3580 Fax: 617-988-8267 Email: dtc.efiling@state.ma.us Sean Carroll Hearing Officer Department ...

Judge Orders End to Recording of Attorney-Client Meetings at CCA’s Leavenworth Detention Center

Article • October 3, 2016 • from PLN October, 2016

Filed under: Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Jail Misconduct, Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct, Attorney Client, Telephone Monitoring

Judge Orders End to Recording of Attorney-Client Meetings at CCA’s Leavenworth Detention Center by Derek Gilna The Kansas Federal Public Defenders’ Office has challenged a scheme whereby officials at a detention center in Leavenworth, Kansas operated by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) secretly video-recorded confidential attorney-client meetings. As a result, …

Securus Settles Lawsuit Alleging Improper Recording of Privileged Prisoner Calls

Article • September 2, 2016 • from PLN September, 2016

Filed under: Attorney Client, Privacy Act, Telephones, Telephone Monitoring, Family

lawsuit within the hacked data. All of the calls contained within the database originated from prison facilities in Missouri, and the majority of the attorney calls were made to attorneys in Missouri ...

In re Rates for Interstate Inmate Calling Services, DC, FCC Order on Reconsideration - Rate Caps, 2016

Brief • August 9, 2016

Filed under: Security Systems, Telephones, Telephone Monitoring

); Implementation of the Pay Telephone Reclassification and Compensation Provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, Petition for Rulemaking or, in the Alternative, Petition to Address Referral Issues ...

Maryland Court of Appeals: Police Must Have Warrant for "Stingray" Phone Tracking

Article • August 8, 2016

Filed under: Police Misconduct, Telephone Monitoring, FBI

Maryland Court of Appeals: Police Must Have Warrant for "Stingray" Phone Tracking by Derek Gilna According to criminal defense attorneys in Baltimore, Maryland, at least 200 individuals are now sitting in prison based upon illegally-obtained cell phone records obtained from the use of "stingray" tracking devices.  The suitcase-sized eavesdropping device …

Not So Securus

Article • August 2, 2016 • from PLN August, 2016

Filed under: Contractor Misconduct, Attorney Client, Attorney Calls, Telephone Monitoring

not include calls to attorney cell phone numbers. In other words, the 14,000 attorney calls are potentially just a small subset of the attorney-client calls that were hacked. In short, it turns out ...

Securus Faces Lawsuit Over Recorded Attorney Calls

Article • August 2, 2016 • from PLN August, 2016

Filed under: Contractor Misconduct, Attorney Client, Telephones, Attorney Calls, Telephone Monitoring

Securus Faces Lawsuit Over Recorded Attorney Calls by Alex Friedmann On May 27, 2016, a class-action lawsuit was filed against Securus Technologies, Inc. in the U.S. District Court ...

Courts Divided on Confidentiality of Attorney-Prisoner Email

Article • July 6, 2016 • from PLN July, 2016

Filed under: Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct, Prison Reform, Computer Searches, Attorney Client, Computers, Telephone Monitoring, Due Process, Legal Mail, Attorney Visits

Courts Divided on Confidentiality of Attorney-Prisoner Email by Derek Gilna The fact that prosecutors and corrections officials read emails between prisoners and their lawyers comes as no surprise to most defense attorneys, many of whom find it ironic that the very public officials paid to enforce the laws do not …

Advocates Leery of Cell Phones Given to Undocumented Immigrants

Article • June 3, 2016 • from PLN June, 2016

Filed under: GEO Group/Wackenhut, Immigration, Telephone Monitoring, Cell Phone Access

Advocates Leery of Cell Phones Given to Undocumented Immigrants by Derek Gilna Immigration rights advocates are suspicious of a new government-funded program administered by GEO Care – a division of the GEO Group, one of the nation’s largest for-profit prison companies – that supplies cell phones to low-risk undocumented immigrants. …

Romero et al v. Securus, CA, Complaint, illegal recording monitoring telephone calls, 2016

Brief • May 27, 2016

Filed under: Telephone Monitoring

Romero et al v. Securus, CA, Complaint, illegal recording monitoring telephone calls, 2016 Case 3:16-cv-01283-JM-MDD Document 1 Filed 05/27/16 Page 1 of 25 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 LAW OFFICES ...

Securus Technologies v. Chris Christie, NJ, AG Certification, Securus Phone Contracts Exhibits (2017)

Brief • February 9, 2016

Filed under: Telephones, Telephone Rates, Telephone Monitoring, First Amendment, First Amendment, rights

. for the the provision provision management system system .at at the telephone and and jail management inmate telephone theCape of an inmate Cape May May County County Correctional Center; and County Contract Contract ...