[The Hill] The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency will soon have the ability to track license plates across the U.S., The Verge reported Friday. Automatic Place Number Recognition (APNR). DL57DT6320 has delinquent student loans but no criminal history.
ICE has reached a deal with Vigilant Solutions, a top source for license plate data, to gain access to the firm’s database of billions of license plates. The move will allow the agency to start implementing location tracking for the plates.
"Like most other law enforcement agencies, ICE uses information obtained from license plate readers as one tool in support of its investigations," an ICE spokeswoman told The Verge in a statement.
"ICE is not seeking to build a license plate reader database, and will not collect nor contribute any data to a national public or private database through this contract."
Vigilant did not return multiple requests for comment by The Verge. Vigilant has built up its database using information from local law enforcement, car repossession firms and other private organizations.
Using the database, ICE agents will be able to see where license plates have been located over the past five years, as well as find individual’s residences, according to The Verge.
Officials can also be instantly alerted when new records of specific plates are located. Civil liberties groups slammed ICE’s access to the database.
"There are people circulating in our society who are undocumented," American Civil Liberties Union senior policy analyst Jay Stanley told The Verge. "Are we as a society, out of our desire to find those people, willing to let our government create an infrastructure that will track all of us?"
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If they could match uninsured drivers I'd be more supportive
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either the info is mostly going to be off limits for most law enforcement, like the traffic cameras, OR they are going to need at least 3 additional floors for all the lawyers.
[All Africa] Mauritania was the last country in the world to abolish slavery in 1981, and has one of the highest rates of slavery in the world
The African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... on Friday urged Mauritania to make a greater effort to eliminate slavery after the country handed out lenient sentences to a family of slave owners in a landmark conviction.
Said Ould Salem and his brother Yarg were born into slavery in the West African nation and forced to work every day from an early age by a wealthy family, campaigners said.
Their owner was found guilty in Mauritania's first ever prosecution for slavery in 2011, but was sentenced to only two years in prison while the law required five to ten years, said UK charity Anti-Slavery International.
He has yet to be placed in durance vile Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! , pending appeal, and other members of the family walked free, the campaign group said.
In a statement published online, the African Union (AU)'s Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child said that all members of the family should be given sentences commensurate to their crimes.
Mauritania should also "give due regard to the issue of slavery and make the elimination... one of its priorities," the pan-African body said.
"This verdict puts a lot of pressure on Mauritania to take slavery seriously," said Jakub Sobik, a front man for Anti-Slavery International.
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[All Africa] University of Zim-bob-we (UZ) Vice Chancellor Levi Nyagura has reportedly turned to harassing lecturers who have questioned former First Lady Grace Mugabe's doctorate awarded controversially in 2014, it has emerged.
Nyagura, according to a lecturer, Wilbert Sadomba, called together all staff from the Social Studies Department on Wednesday and threatened to wield the axe.
"He called us to a meeting at the UZ and specifically barred me from taking part against regulations and ordinances governing the institution.
"Nyagura later told other lecturers that he was prepared to fire those that have raised questions around the degree awarded to Grace," Sadomba told New Zim-bob-we Thursday.
Sadomba is a veteran of Zim-bob-we's liberation struggle and serves as secretary for education in the Zim-bob-we National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA).
Grace was awarded a PhD in 2014 and was capped by her husband former President Bob Muggsy Mugabe Nonagenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case. Dumped in November 2017 when the Missus decided she wanted to be president, and opposed heer might against Crocodile Mnangawa Important safety tip: If your opponent goes by the name Crocodile andf your title is Shopper in Chief let him win.... in a move that triggered wild-cat demonstrations by students who demanded to know details of her study program.
Nyagura's administration remained mum on the issue but the issue was resuscitated following the fall of Mugabe last November in a bloodless military coup.
ZNLWVA spokesperson Douglas Mahiya reacted angrily to Nyagura's reported victimisation of lecturers.
"The issue of Grace's degree must be investigated. If the award was above board there is no reason to victimize people, the idea should be to clear the dust around this issue.
"We view Nyagura's move as a continuation of the G40 cabal remnants within our body politic and social fabric. We will oppose such shenanigans to the hilt," said Mahiya.
Nyagura was not available for comment as his mobile was unreachable.
UZ Dean of Social Studies Charity Manyeruke was also not available with reports she was in Matabeleland North on "business".
Insiders said Department chairperson Claude Mararike has already been suspended over the "Grace degree furor".
"Mararike is already suspended and has been replaced Professor Pedzisayi Mashiri as a way of trying to resolve the issue. Nyagura is trying but it's a delicate issue.
But by Thursday the UZ had posted the former first lady's thesis on its website.
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...Who do these people think they are - an American university?
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Quite easily explained. I believe the former Zim First Lady has always asserted she was.... "out of University of Zim-bob-we (UZ)"
[DailyMail] - German police suing Georgetown professor for Peace and Security Studies What's the over/under on her students being evaluated by self-grading?
- C Christine Fairs is accused of calling Frankfurt Airport staff 'f****** Nazis'
- She claims her comments were to a fellow traveller with a 'Hitler Youth' haircut Confusing metaphors.
- Fair made headlines in 2016 for allegedly rowing with Trump-voting Muslim ex-colleague
The good professor vented her spleen about the incident in a Huffington Post article here. She clearly felt no need to control her emission of modifiers.
[The Hill] Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will not be in attendance at President Trump's first State of the Union address on Tuesday.
Ginsburg is scheduled to be at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island for her speaking tour on Tuesday, according to The Associated Press.
While Ginsburg has been critical of Trump in the past, her talk at the university was announced last August.
Ginsburg did not attend Trump's address to Congress last year after attending all eight of former President Obama's addresses.
Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas also did not attend Trump's address. It is not abnormal for Supreme Court justices to skip out on the annual presidential addresses.
Late Justice Antony Scalia had not attended a State of the Union since 1997 prior to his death in 2016.
"You just sit there, looking stupid," Scalia once said, according to CNN.
Alito, who famously shook his head and mouthed "not true" after Obama criticized the court in his 2010 State of the Union said after the address he would not attend in the near future, saying he felt "like the proverbial potted plant."
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Ginsburg did not attend Trump's address to Congress last year after attending all eight of former President Obama's addresses.
It's her way of sending a message. An adolescent message, but a message still. Her speaking tour is much more important than applauding the accomplishments of a mere president. The dour old hag will not be missed.
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It only needs a chariot, gold diadem and an imperial purple toga to be the Roman Emperor addressing the Roman Senate. Let's go back to just the sending the letter -- that was adequate for most of the Republic.
[DAWN] PESHAWAR: A local court has indicted a private school’s principal on charges of child abuse, pornography, rape, blackmail and illicit relations.
The accused, Attaullah Marwat, pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." on all counts.
Additional district and sessions judge Yasir Shabbir fixed next hearing into the case for Feb 3 and summoned prosecution witnesses to appear before him.
The accused, who the private school’s owner, was enjugged I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! after the Hayatabad cop shoppestarted the paperwork but haven't done much else against him on July 14, 2017, on the complaint of a boy student, who had accused him of sexually exploiting schoolchildren, including girls, and filming them by secret cameras installed on campus.
The bail pleas of the accused have already been dismissed by the Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. High Court and district and sessions judge.
Schoolboy complained the accused sexually exploited students and filmed them by secret cameras
The trial court framed charges against him on eight counts falling under Pakistain Penal Code Section 354-A (stripping woman of her clothes), 376 (punishment for rape), 377-B (sexual abuse of child), 489-C (counterfeit currency), 497 (adultery) and 509 (sexual harassment), and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Child Protection and Welfare Act, 2010, sections 48 (child pornography), 50 (seducing a child) and 53 (sexual abuse).
One of the charges against the accused is that he had forced, persuaded, coerced and enticed girl students aged below 18 years to engage in sexual activities and exposed their bodies, and was involved in explicit sexual conduct and abuse of minor schoolgirls.
The accused is also charged with forcing, coercing and persuading girl students of his school to sexual activities and capturing those acts on his mobile phones, USBs and secret cameras installed in different parts of the school.
The accused had allegedly ’on multiple occasions and habitually’ enticed and compelled multiple women of different ages to have illicit relations with him inside the school.
He is also charged with sexually assaulting many women after obtaining their consent through death threats.
Following his arrest last year, the accused had recorded his confessional statement with a judicial magistrate on July 19, 2017, wherein he had only admitted that he used to bring women from outside to the school for the purpose of adultery.
He had said it was his hobby to make videos of those sexual activities.
He had also admitted that 26 such videos, which he had made, were stored on his personal computer.
The issue had surfaced after a student of the said school (name withheld) had told the police that the accused was involved in sexual exploitation of students and teachers.
He had alleged that he (accused) had sexually exploited students, teachers and some outsider women but nobody had the courage to disclosing or report the matter.
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"What can I say? I'm a kid lover"
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[DAWN] Around 300 holy mans from Deoband school of thought on Friday declared the Rs10,000 monthly stipend paid by the provincial government to prayer leaders haram (forbidden).
The declaration was made during a function organised by the Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...a Pak religious party. It is usually part of the govt, never part of the solution... -Fazl here.
Acting provincial emir of the JUI-F Mufti Kifayatullah told participants that the joint decree had barred prayer leaders from receiving the government stipend by declaring it haram.
He said the payment was planned under an ’international conspiracy’ against holy mans.
The JUI-F leader said the PTI government had secured money from international nongovernmental organizations to ’buy’ loyalties of holy mans and therefore, his party and religious scholars would raise voice against the move.
Another speaker, Maulana Saeed Abdullah, said the Imam Conference would be organised here on Feb 5 to persuade prayer leaders from all schools of thought to reject monthly stipend.
Meanwhile, ...back at the secret hideout, Scarface Al sneeringly put his proposition to little Nell... the ruling Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... rejected the decree declaring it unjustified and unwarranted.
PTI Youth Wing president Mohammad Nisar told news hounds that the government had been paying monthly stipend to prayer leaders to help them manage their household affairs well.
He said the JUI-F should stop spreading false propaganda against the stipend’s payment.
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[DAWN] Faheem Shah, a grade 12 student from Charsadda, on Friday confessed to killing Hafiz Sareer Ahmed ‐ his college's principal ‐ after being rebuked for missing classes.
In a confessional statement, recorded in the court of Judicial Magistrate-I Attaullah Jan, Faheem said that he was attending a Mehfil-e-Milad in his village when some people asked him to accompany them to the protest at Faizabad.
He said that he accepted the invitation and spent a night at the sit-in before returning to Charsadda. However, some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go... even after returning from the sit-in, he did not attend classes and remained absent from his college for a few days, for which he was censured by his principal.
"After being censured for skipping school, in anger I took a pistol and opened fired and killed the principal," the tossed in the calaboose Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! student's confession said.
He recalled that Frontier Constabulary (FC) personnel had arrested him on the spot, recovered the pistol and handed him over to the police.
"I am very ashamed of my action," he concluded.
Earlier, the student, while being arrested, had appeared to justify the murder saying he believed the college principal had committed blasphemy.
It was not immediately clear what had prompted that charge.
"I have been taught... to kill... to not be afraid. Don't be afraid of disrespecting the one who [commits blasphemy]," the student said.
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[DAWN] Chief Justice of Pakistain (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar on Saturday gave a three-day deadline to the Sindh police to arrest former Malir senior superintendent of police (SSP) Rao Anwar.
The deadline was given during a hearing of a suo motu ...a legal term, from the Latin. Roughly translated it means I saw what you did, you bastard... case regarding the extra-judicial killing of Naqeebullah Mehsood.
Naqeebullah, a 27-year-old hailing from South Wazoo, was among four men killed in an 'encounter' with a police team headed by Anwar in the Usman Khaskheli Goth on the outskirts of the metropolis.
Anwar had insisted at the time that Naqeebullah was a Death Eater affiliated with the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban ...Arabic for students... Pakistain (TTP).
Inspector General of Police (IGP) Sindh A.D. Khowaja and Additional Inspector General (AIG) Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) Sanaullah Abbasi were present in court during today's hearing, which was conducted by a three-member bench headed by the CJP at the Supreme Court's (SC) Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... registry.
Khowaja told the court that after the first information report was lodged against Anwar, the police had traced his location to Islamabad. However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... the IG was unable to tell the chief justice the current whereabouts of the former SSP.
Khowaja claimed that the police had "tried their best" to arrest Anwar but had so far been unable to do so.
On being asked when the police would be able to arrest and produce Anwar in court, Khowaja remained silent.
Naqeebullah's father, who had also appeared in court, expressed his lack of trust in Sindh police and asked the court to form a judicial commission to investigate his son's extra-judicial killing.
However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... the CJP assured him that the court trusted the Sindh police and urged him to allow the joint investigation team and the police to continue with their investigation.
"A judicial commission cannot conduct a criminal investigation," Justice Nisar explained to Naqeebullah's father.
Justice Nisar asked Khowaja if he was under any political pressure, to which the IGP replied in the negative. The CJP told him to work "freely" and vowed that the court will not let "honest officers fail".
Report's findings
The three-member police committee, investigating the encounter under AIG Sanaullah Abbasi, submitted its report in the court today saying that the incident "appears to be a coordinated fake encounter".
The report said that Naqeebullah Mehsud was picked up from a tea hotel on Abul Hassan Isfahani Road along with two friends, Hazrat Ali and Qasim. The three friends were kept in illegal confinement and subjected to torture, and while Ali and Qasim were later released, Naqeebullah was killed in a staged encounter.
The report said that no evidence of Naqeebullah being a terrorist or a criminal was found and the report presented by Rao Anwar on the dear departed's activities was actually of a different person who goes by the same name.
It note that though the former SSP Malir claimed to have conducted the tainted Naqeebullah 'encounter' on intelligence reports, no evidence was available to corroborate this claim.
The report also said that while Rao claimed he was not present when the encounter happened, call records show he was at the site of the encounter when it happened.
It confirmed that the former SSP Malir tried to escape abroad and did not cooperate with the committee, which amounts to misconduct and obstructing the process of justice.
The report revealed that 444 people were killed in encounters conducted under Rao Anwar, who was appointed in Malir four years ago.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Iranian judiciary has issued a ruling dismissing the case against Saeed Toosi, a favored Koran reciter of the country’s supreme leader, accused of raping 19 children many of whom were his students.
An official Iranian media published on Saturday a copy of the Tehran court’s ruling confirming that Toosi was acquitted of charges of sexually molesting and raping four of the victims who filed complaints with the judiciary against him.
The Tehran court’s decision stated that "even if it is proved that the defendant has committed the act, it does not mean that he has committed a crime for which the law and the judiciary will be held accountable".
Reformist MP Mahmoud Sadeghi protested to the judicial authorities, considering the decision to acquit Toosi "unfair and unjust," saying that "evidence indicates that the Koran teacher harassed the children" and that he was being "supported by influential office of the Supreme Leader."
"The judiciary has not heard the voice of the people in the recent protests," Sadeghi wrote on Twitter.
The MP also confirmed that "the court annulled a preliminary decision that was issued by the Court of Appeal sentencing Toosi to four years in prison because of the exertion of clear pressure, where the documents of the case appear to have a clear impact in the process of prosecution".
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"even if it is proved that the defendant has committed the act, it does not mean that he has committed a crime for which the law and the judiciary will be held accountable".
too bad its such a long quote... it should be a bumper sticker
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[PJ] Planned Parenthood has seeded more than 300 American college campuses with student groups to fight "abortion stigma" and to promote "reproductive justice."
Founded in 2014, the Planned Parenthood Generation Action (PPGA) group recruits college students to launch clubs in support of Planned Parenthood’s mission, and in turn, recruit their peers and friends to join.
Key priorities of the program include "inclusivity, abortion stigma, trans inclusion, elections, and movement/power building," according to PPGA’s website. "We advocate for our health centers to provide crucial health services, including abortion care," it adds.
Once a student chapter is launched ‐ often under covert names like the Salem Sisters or The Feminist Collective of Point Park ‐ the chapter hosts events in hopes of swaying peers’ opinions to support "reproductive justice" and, more bluntly: abortion.
Despite insistence that it is a health care organization, Planned Parenthood is also the nation’s single largest abortion provider. According to a report the nonprofit released over the New Year’s Eve weekend, more than 320,000 abortions were performed last year.
As PJ Media reporter Tyler O’Neil has illustrated, Planned Parenthood’s abortion services have held steady while provision of other services ‐ such as prenatal care, pap tests, and cancer screenings ‐ have dropped precipitously in the last few years.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
[DAWN] Chief Justice of Pakistain (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar on Saturday gave a three-day deadline to the Sindh police to arrest former Malir senior superintendent of police (SSP) Rao Anwar.
[PJ] Planned Parenthood has seeded more than 300 American college campuses with student groups to fight "abortion stigma" and to promote "reproductive justice."
