Following almost a year of legal battles, Lexington must release information about the city’s surveillance cameras and policies surrounding their use, a judge ordered this month.
State police in Virginia recorded and collected the whereabouts of potentially millions of people in an effort to monitor attendees at political rallies in 2008 and 2009, according to Freedom of Information Act request filed by the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
The newspaper, two reporters and various civil liberties organizations lost their suit Wednesday to force the government to release information about targeted drone strikes.
After a Sunshine Request and the subsequent lawsuit, the Department of Homeland Security has released more than 200 pages on documents on online monitoring.
