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Cellphones, Law Enforcement, and the Right to Privacy

This paper surveys the landscape of government acquisition of location data about cell phone users, how that location information is accrued and disseminated, and the technologies that can establish past and present locations, and identify other users in proximity.
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- December 20, 2018
Citizens United Five Years Later

Wealthy individuals were the biggest beneficiaries of the Supeme Court’s Citizens United decision.
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- January 15, 2015
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Crime in 2018: Updated Analysis

Brennan Center researchers estimate that overall crime, violent crime, and murder rates are expected to decline in some of America’s largest cities in 2018.
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- December 18, 2018
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Wrong Priorities on Fighting Terrorism

Many in federal law enforcement have blamed their inadequate response to rising far-right violence on a lack of statutory authority to prosecute white supremacists and others as domestic terrorists. This paper argues that they already have everything they need to do so.
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- October 31, 2018
Automatic and Permanent Voter Registration: How It Works

This analysis explains exactly how automatic registration works and how other states can move to implement it.
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- November 11, 2015
The Case for Automatic Voter Registration

Automatic, universal voter registration is a comprehensive plan to sign up every eligible American to vote.
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- September 22, 2015
America’s Voting Machines at Risk

Technology has changed dramatically in the last decade, but America’s voting machines are rapidly aging out. This comprehensive study looks at the challenges associated with outdated equipment, new technologies, and solutions to the impending crisis.
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- September 15, 2014
Conference Report: The Governing Crisis

The Brennan Center gathered a group of scholars, advocates, journalists, foundation leaders, and philanthropists with the goal of identifying possible solutions to government dysfunction.
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- May 14, 2014
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Elected Officials, Secret Cash

How politicians use nonprofits to cloak spending after election day.
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- March 15, 2018
Criminal Justice One Year Into the Trump Administration

This analysis examines specific ways the Trump Administration has used memoranda or more subtle changes to implement a more draconian law enforcement strategy. It threatens to disrupt state and local movements for reform that have broad, bipartisan backing.
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- February 8, 2018