Oct 4, 2017
OWH 10/4/17 Douglas County and the Metropolitan Utilities District are hiring an architect to help them decide whether they should move in together downtown. The Douglas County Board voted Tuesday to approve an agreement with MUD and HDR Architecture Inc. The two...
Oct 3, 2017
Are social media posts public records? That was the question in a recent legal case that could have far reaching consequences for public records in Virginia. Is that the sound of democracy in the 21st Century? Loudoun software engineer Brian Davison thinks so, and...
Oct 2, 2017
The New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner operates the largest and most advanced public DNA crime laboratory in North America. We are proud to set the highest standards for independent science and to share our expertise with other jurisdictions in the neutral...
Sep 20, 2017
A Facebook friendship doesn’t necessarily signify a close relationship, according to Florida’s Third District Court of Appeal. A mere allegation of a Facebook friendship, without more, does not provide a basis for disqualification, the court said. The Aug. 23 decision...
Sep 18, 2017
It is common for judges to publish guidance for lawyers who appear in their courtrooms on how to conduct themselves with regard to minor matters like how and when to file motions. But on Wednesday, Jack B. Weinstein, a senior federal judge in Brooklyn, used this...
Sep 15, 2017
The state of New York says its driver’s license facial recognition technology has led to the arrest of 4,000 people in connection to identify theft or fraud crimes. This number is likely to skyrocket in the wake of the state doubling the number of measurement...
Sep 14, 2017
OWH The City of Omaha, after discussing a crime lab merger with Douglas County for more than a decade, got tired of waiting. City leaders have now done what they said they would do if Douglas County Sheriff Tim Dunning an other critics kept standing in the way of a...
Sep 11, 2017
A U.S. appeals court on Friday limited the ability of police to seize cell phones from homes of people suspected of crimes, ruling the prevelance of mobile devices did not mean police could assume a suspect had one when requesting a search warrant. The U.S. Court of...
Sep 8, 2017
The Crime Report Most people know that very little they do on the web is private. The terabytes of data held online contain personal information accessible not only to friends, relatives and would-be employers, but to private businesses, which frequently collect user...
Sep 6, 2017
Fentanyl, a synthetic painkiller, is exacerbating heroin’s deadly trap. In cities across the U.S., it is fueling deeper addiction and has become one of the most prominent killers linked to the nation’s drug crisis, reports the Washington Post. View Full...
