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• Groups allege Calif agency shared HIV patient data

  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California health officials violated state privacy laws by giving personal information about thousands of HIV-positive welfare recipients to a nonprofit group that serves people infected with the virus, three legal groups... more »

  LISA LEFF, Associated Press Writer Associated Press1 day ago

  AIDS | personal data collection | laws | epidemic and plague | punishment

• ACLU petitions for oversight of Newark police

  NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union said Thursday that the police department of New Jersey's largest city has so many serious problems — rampant misconduct, lax internal oversight and too many cases of officers using... more »

  SAMANTHA HENRY, Associated Press Writer Associated Press1 day ago

  police | arrest | judiciary (system of justice)

• Analysis: Recent California newspaper editorials

  [...] we think we could soon see a voter revolt akin to the 2003 recall of Gov. Gray Davis or the 1978 passage of Proposition 13. The gap between what the public wants and what the Legislature thinks is important is enormous and that holds for... more »

  The Associated Press, Associated Press2 days ago

  children | health insurance | consumers | parties and movements | laws | employee

• Auditor says CYFD officials hid records

  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — An auditor has accused officials at the state Children, Youth and Families Department of conspiring to withhold medical records showing youths under its care were receiving inadequate health care. "CYFD has reviewed... more »

  Associated Press2 days ago

  children | family | medical procedure/test

• NC sheriffs want access to prescription database

  The state began a computer database in 2007 to help doctors identify patients who go from doctor to doctor looking for prescription drugs they may not need and to keep pharmacists from supplying patients with too many pills. Nearly 30 percent of... more »

  Associated Press2 days ago

  crime | government departments | patient | primary care physician | prescription drugs | non government organizations (NGO)

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  Judge to decide on Illinois plan for mentally ill

  CHICAGO (AP) — Good intentions won't keep the mentally ill safe and alive, a tearful mother told a federal judge Tuesday at a hearing concerning how Illinois houses and cares for thousands of Medicaid recipients. U.S. District Judge William... more »

  CARLA K. JOHNSON, AP Medical Writer Associated Press3 days ago

  judiciary (system of justice) | trials | medicaid | punishment | unions | civil rights

• ACLU wants US Supreme Court to review SD case

  A federal appeals court last May affirmed a judge's decision five years ago to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that the makeup of the districts violated the voting rights of American Indians. more »

  Associated Press1 week ago

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  Inmates say jailer used 'enforcers' at Mo. jail

  ST. LOUIS (AP) — An advocacy group demanded independent oversight of Missouri jails and prisons Tuesday after inmates claimed that a former chief jailer encouraged some inmates to attack others causing problems at his rural jail. The... more »

  JIM SALTER, Associated Press Writer Associated Press1 week ago

  crime | punishment | arrest | prison | trials

• ACLU: Raided Calif firm mistreated illegal workers

  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Civil rights lawyers filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against a government contractor that was the target of an immigration raid this summer, accusing the company of bilking illegal workers out of pay and violating their... more »

  Associated Press1 week ago

  employee | government departments | immigration | migration | illegal immigrants | civil rights

• NY groups seek DC order blocking targeted killings

  Al-Awlaki was put on the list after U.S. intelligence authorities tied him to Sept. 11 hijackers and concluded he had provided inspiration for those who carried out shootings in Fort Hood, Texas, a failed Times Square car bombing and an attempted... more »

  LARRY NEUMEISTER, Associated Press Writer Associated Press1 week ago

  laws | act of terror | trials | terrorism