From the Borough of State College’s Web Site Statement of Problem Alcohol Source Investigation Project (SIP) Overview The State College Police Department (SCPD) in conjunction with the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board (PLCB) undertook an 18-month pilot project...
From the New York Times By ADAM LIPTAK Published: June 25, 2009 WASHINGTON — A strip search of a 13-year-old girl by officials at her middle school violated the Constitution, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday in an 8-to-1 decision. The student, Savana Redding, had been...
Sunday, October 07, 2007 By Bill Schackner, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette STATE COLLEGE, Pa. –The 18-year-old Penn State University student was urinating outside a home near fraternity row late on a Friday night when police swooped in, grabbing his arm before he could...
In testimony before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs yesterday, Assistant United States Attorney General Lanny Breuer declared that “Congress’s goal should be to completely eliminate the sentencing disparity between crack cocaine and powder...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 1, 2009 HARRISBURG- The Pennsylvania House of Representatives today unanimously passed legislation to conform the search-and-seizure powers of the Pennsylvania Game Commission with the federal and state constitutions, and the bill’s...
The American Civil Liberties Union today released a report summarizing the civil liberties and civil rights record of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, who was nominated by President Obama to replace retiring Justice David Souter as an Associate Justice of the United States...
