The FBI and the Obama administration want expanded power, but they are applying 20th century assumptions about surveillance to 21st century technologies.
The California school reform law is well intentioned but unfair in certain aspects.
A proposed law could put California at the forefront of states accepting their moral and legal obligation to protect inmates, but it needs stronger penalties.
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Rodriguez: Reform for people or for politics? - February 18, 2013
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