The FBI seized a blade server installation that included servers for prominent services like Instapaper and Pinboard.

The FBI is looking for informants to go to "Vegan Potlucks" in the Twin Cities and report on potential protests during this years Republican National Convention.

A judge did the right thing and dropped the charges against Steve Kurtz of the Critical Art Ensemble.

AJ relates how Philadelphia cops harassed her for taking a photo in the Suburban Station concourse – where photography is permitted – and reflects on a beating death that took place at SEPTA headquarters days before.

There are only four examples on this LiveJournal post, but they do provide some insights into the priorities of inmate information management over the last two centuries.

Apparently, courts have ruled that police officers have the right to search motorists mobile phones for text messages at routine traffic stops. This article argues that shouldn't be the case.

This free service apparently drafts FOIA requests for folks interested in knowing what's in their federal surveillance files.

An Austin anarchist describes being detained by a state trooper for running a red light on his bicycle. He makes some good points in spite of the antagonistic tone.

In anticipation of the G8 summit, cops are experimenting with a technique that uses scent to identify activists. Clearly tahis is a case of patchouli profiling.

It appears the LAPD failed to give the largely Spanish-speaking crowd orders to disperse in Spanish before shooting rubber bullets into a crowd with children present.

I guess I'm a little disappointed to see Wolf back down, but he's been held longer than any US journalist in history.

The terrorists have already won.

This story is all over the news media, but I want to chime in and say that to me it's more a case of incompetent law enforcement than any "hoax."

Oh dear, a team of law-enforcement personnel rescued frozen embryos during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, while thaw adults suffered and died.

"Newfound files detail how UT-Austin police tracked the lives of Sixties dissidents." Lloyd Doggett, Janis Joplin, and Kinky Friedman were all under surveillance.

Pitchfork posts a follow-up on the police riot friday.

On Friday Houston police officers responded to a noise complaint at the indie rock venue Walter's on Washington by charging the stage and tasering members of the band Two Gallant, destroying a vintage upright bass in the process.

In a recent Department of Homeland Security cyberterror simulation, one of the antagonist groups was dubbed "Freedom not Bombs," which sounds suspiciously close to the watch-listed group Food Not Bombs, which distributes vegan food to the hungry.

David Caruso's Horatio Caine needs to roll in one of these on the next season of "CSI:Miami."

via /. - the copyright cops are really out of control.

Excerpt from a recently declassified FBI memo concerning the 1960s skit comedy show "Laugh-In." Frankly, I would be more worried about the Smothers Brothers.

Newsweek story about law enforcement's use of MySpace to solve crimes, maintain order.

Yet another reason I'm glad I didn't move to Orange County. I don't think I saw a bus the whole time I was there.

Austin Indymedia reports on a talk given by an FBI officer at UT Law School. I'm not sure how giving food to hungry people is a terrorist act.