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    MLAT Jiu-Jitsu and Tor: Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties in Surveillance

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    A corrupt Australian Law Enforcement Agency (LEA) wishes to track the communications of a journalist who has published leaked whistleblowing documents from a confidential source, revealing the Australian LEA\u27s complicity in illegal narcotics activity. The target journalist lives in New York and is a U.S. citizen. She opens her laptop, goes online and fires up Tor Browser. She is communicating with her whistleblowing source in Australia, who faces death if his identity is uncovered. Her communication and network traffic passes through Tor relays in Canada, Finland, and Malaysia before arriving at her source in Australia

    Identification and Legal Advocacy for Trafficking Survivors

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    The NY Anti-Trafficking Network is a coalition of diverse legal and social service providers in New York State and surrounding regions dedicated to ending human trafficking and coordinating resources to provide services to trafficked persons. The Network's Legal Subcommittee advocates on policy issues, advises on technical legal issues, and works toward educating the attorneys on the problem of human trafficking in its many manifestations. The Legal Subcommittee drafted this manual to provide guidance to lawyers on issues that arise in the context of representing trafficking survivors. The manual is designed for practitioners who are familiar with basic legal terms and concepts, to offer some insight into the process. It is not meant to be an exhaustive source of the law.This manual is focused on the T visa, which was established by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA) and put into effect by immigration regulations published in January 2002. The T visa provides immigration relief to foreign nationals trafficked into the United States. If favorably adjudicated, it grants the survivor permission to remain within the U.S. and to obtain employment authorization for three years. At the end of the three years, or when the investigation is complete, the survivor is eligible to petition for permanent residency. This manual discusses the background of the T visa, suggests points to consider in evaluating a client's eligibility for the T visa, evaluates the statute and the regulations, and offers step-by-step instruction on preparing a T application for consideration by the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Service

    Evaluation of an Early Intervention System at a Law Enforcement Agency

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    Evaluation of an Early Intervention System at a Law Enforcement Agency. Robert Scott Russell, 2014: Applied Dissertation, Nova Southeastern University, Abraham S. Fischler School of Education. ERIC Descriptors: Computer Software Evaluation, Crime Prevention, Law Enforcement, Police Community Relationship, Program Evaluation. The problem addressed through this program evaluation was that no formal study had been conducted regarding the implementation and effectiveness of the BlueTeam Program (BTP) within the law enforcement agency (LEA) serving as the study site. The BTP is a program that utilizes a computer application to track officer behaviors and alert administrators to potential trends in officer misconduct and complaints against officers. The program evaluation was guided by the process and product segments of Stufflebeam\u27s (2003) content, input, process, and product model. To conduct the evaluation, the researcher used a mixed methods approach for analyzing both qualitative and quantitative data. The perceptions of LEA stakeholders regarding the BTP, such as the sufficiency of staffing, budget, training, and ongoing support for effective implementation, were first collected. Quantitative data, consisting of archived, deidentified indicators of officer misconduct and complaints against officers acquired through the BTP, were then analyzed. Findings of the study were that the BTP was effective in reducing incidents of officer misconduct and complaints against officers and for use in identifying which alerts were valid indicators of misconduct and complaints against officers. The one concern of stakeholders involving the BTP was limited nighttime vision; the recommendation for program improvement is that this shortcoming be addressed to determine possible solutions. Recommendations for future research involve the need for initial determinations, as well as formative evaluations, pertaining to the following three areas: (a) ascertaining the way in which the early intervention system will be used, (b) identifying the indicators of misconduct that will be tracked, and (c) determining the threshold at which the system will issue an alert

    Judicial Refusal to Imply a Private Right of Action Under the FTCA

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